Your customers
- Fastener and hardware wholesalers
- OEMs (auto, tractor, electrical, furniture)
- Construction and transmission-tower contractors
- Exporters
Metals and engineering · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a fastener maker
Set up the way a fastener maker runs: margin over wire rod on fasteners sold by kg or per 100 pieces, priced by size, grade and finish; OEM parts per piece. Routines, workflows, registers, licences and an AI team that knows the work are ready when you sign up.
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What this solves
What a fastener maker deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Thousands of size, grade and finish combinations; nobody knows what is in the drums. Lots sit at platers and heat treaters and come back short.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 8 routines, 2 workflows, 3 registers and 9 licences for a fastener maker, with an AI team that reads your own records and prepares the work.
What changes
The right person is reminded at the right time, approvals wait for whoever decides, and every licence has a renewal reminder. Anything that sends, pays, signs, files or deletes waits for a person's approval.
Where you sit
MatruOS starts from how your business earns
Who you sell to, who you buy from, how credit moves and where you sit in the chain decide how your screens, reminders and reports are set up.
- Wire rod mill
- fastener maker
- (heat treater, plater)
- wholesaler
- hardware shop or OEM
Your suppliers
- Wire rod mills and stockists
- Wire drawers
- Heat treaters (job work)
- Platers and galvanisers (job work)
- Die and tool makers
- Packing material
Credit and cash
Wire rod on advance or 15-30 days; dealers 30-60 days with cash discount for early payment; OEMs 60-90 days; platers and heat treaters paid monthly
Stock of finished sizes is the big money: 60-90 days of stock across thousands of sizes plus 45-60 days dealer credit
Your screens use your words
CustomerPartyItemSizeInvoiceBillproductFastenerBatchLot
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a fastener maker
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Fastener maker", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a fastener makerRoutines, workflows, registers, items, licences and the AI team for this trade are set up for you.
- Bring your dataCustomers, items and balances come across from Zoho Books, Vyapar, Excel and others. For Tally, our team helps you move the data while Tally import is checked on the live app.
- Approve and runThe AI team prepares the routine work. A person approves anything that sends, pays, signs, files or deletes.
Your AI team
What the AI team does for a fastener maker
Each job goes to a member of your AI team. It reads your own records and prepares the work. Anything that sends, pays, signs, files or deletes waits for a person's approval.
Converts weighed output to pieces, updates size-wise stock, lists sizes below reorder level, and checks that each packed lot has a test record
Works it out and shows you
Lists lots out beyond the agreed days, reminds the job worker, and works out shortage on return
Asks you before sending
Ages dealer dues, drafts statements and reminders, and flags dealers to hold before the next dispatch
Asks you before sending
Recomputes base price per kg and size extras from the new wire rod and plating cost, and drafts the dealer price list
Asks you before sending
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How you run
Your routines, already on a timetable
Each routine has a time, a person and its steps with the checks that matter. MatruOS reminds the right person and keeps the record. Open one to see its steps.
Every day
8:30 amDaily machine plan by size
- 1Pick sizes below reorder level and open dealer and OEM orders
- 2Group sizes on the same diameter to cut die changes
- 3First-piece check on each machine before the run
5:30 pmWeigh-count, pack and enter stock
- 1Weigh output per size and convert to pieces with count per kg
- 2Pack in boxes of 100 or 1000 with size, grade and lot label
- 3Enter kg into size-wise stock
Every week
Tue, FriChase lots at heat treaters and platers
- 1List lots out longer than 7 days
- 2Call job worker and note promised date
- 3Check kg back vs kg sent and note shortage
MonWeekly dealer order round and dues
- 1Call or message top dealers for orders by size
- 2Send statement of dues before taking new order
- 3Hold dispatch to dealers beyond agreed days
Every month
2ndRevise dealer price list with wire rod rate
- 1Note this month's wire rod rate and plating rates
- 2Revise base price per kg and size extras
- 3Send revised list to dealers on approval
20thDie life and tool cost review
- 1Pieces made per die set by size
- 2Order dies for sizes running low
Every year
AprBIS surveillance and annual licence fee
- 1Check test records, calibration of hardness tester and tensile machine
- 2Pay BIS marking fee and renew licence before expiry
- 3Keep samples ready for BIS factory and market surveillance
Workflows
Each stage goes to the person who handles it
Work passes stage by stage to the right person. Stages marked for approval wait for the person who decides.
Wire rod to packed stock
- 1Wire rod received with MTC
- 2Drawn and headed
- 3Thread rolled
- 4Sent for HT and plating
- 5Received and testedNeeds approval
- 6Packed into stock
Dealer order to collection
- 1Order by size list
- 2Credit and dues checkedNeeds approval
- 3Picked and weighed
- 4Billed and sent by transport
- 5Payment received
Registers and SOPs
Your registers and standards
Registers hold the fields this trade records. SOPs carry the steps and checks, so work is done the same way every time.
Size-wise stock
Lots out for HT and plating
Lot test record
Grade, strength and marking check
Sell only bolts and nuts that meet their grade
Plating and galvanising acceptance
Avoid rust complaints and hydrogen embrittlement
Items and licences
Your first bill is right, and no licence lapses
Starter items arrive with unit, HSN and GST rate. The registrations this business usually needs are listed with a reminder before each one expires.
| Item | HSN | GST |
|---|---|---|
| Hex bolt grade 8.8 (zinc plated) | 7318 | 18% |
| Hex bolt grade 10.9 (black) | 7318 | 18% |
| Mild steel hex bolt (black) | 7318 | 18% |
| Hex nut grade 8 | 7318 | 18% |
| Self-tapping screw (zinc) | 7318 | 18% |
| Machine screw | 7318 | 18% |
| Steel rivet | 7318 | 18% |
| Plain and spring washer | 7318 | 18% |
| Foundation and J bolt (hot forged) | 7318 | 18% |
| Hot-dip galvanised tower bolt | 7318 | 18% |
| Process scrap and bur | 7204 | 18% |
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Factory licence
- Pollution consent (CTO)
- BIS licence (ISI mark)
- PF registration (EPFO)
- ESI registration (ESIC)
- Import Export Code (IEC)If it applies
- GST Letter of Undertaking (LUT) for exportsIf it applies
Your people
The people who run it, each with their own login
Each person sees the screens and reminders for the work they do.
OwnerBuys wire rod, fixes dealer price list, handles BIS licence and big dealers.
Production supervisorSets machine plan by size, die changes, daily kg.
Header and roller operatorRuns headers, nut formers and thread rollers.
Tool setterDie and punch change, die polishing and records.
QC in-chargeFirst-piece check, hardness, proof load, coating thickness, BIS records.
Dispatch and stores clerkWeigh-count packing, job-work challans, dealer orders.
AccountantBills, dealer ledger, GST, collections.
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Not covered yet
- Sending messages, bills and reminders on WhatsApp from MatruOS is not live yet. Today they go by link, QR code or email, and from your own phone in one tap.
- Live bank and UPI feeds are not connected yet. Upload a bank statement and MatruOS reads it into payments for you to confirm.
Questions people ask
How long does it take to set up MatruOS for a fastener maker?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Fastener maker". MatruOS picks this business type and sets up everything on this page in a few minutes. You then get a 7-day free trial, no card needed.
Do I have to type all of this in?
No. The routines, workflows, registers, items, licences and AI team on this page arrive already set up. You change what is different in your business, and bring your customers, items and balances from Zoho Books, Vyapar, Excel and others, with our team's help for Tally data.
Can I change the routines and workflows?
Yes. Every routine, workflow, register and SOP is yours to rename, retime, switch off or add to. MatruOS keeps the rest of the system in step with your changes.
What does the AI team do without asking me?
It runs routine checks and prepares drafts. Anything that sends, pays, signs, files or deletes waits for a person's approval. The one exception you can choose is payment reminders, which go out on their own once you have checked them and switched them on.
Metals and engineering
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Run a fastener maker on one system Set up for your trade when you sign up.
Describe your business once. MatruOS sets up your apps, brings in your data and puts Muni and the AI team to work, with your approval on every step that matters. 7-day free trial, no card needed.
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