Your customers
- Hand-tool makers
- Agricultural implement makers
- Tractor and auto aftermarket part makers
- Valve and fitting makers
- Railway and general engineering
Metals and engineering · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a forging unit
Set up the way a forging unit runs: price per kg (simple parts) or per piece (finished forgings) by steel grade and weight; die cost charged once or amortised. 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 forging unit deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Cut weight too high; flash and scale loss eat the margin. Fuel per tonne unknown.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 9 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 9 licences for a forging unit, 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.
- Steel stockist
- hammer forging
- machining or heat treatment
- hand-tool, agri or auto aftermarket maker
Your suppliers
- Steel bar stockists and re-rollers
- Tool rooms (dies)
- Furnace oil or gas suppliers
- Heat treaters
- Shot blast job workers
Credit and cash
Steel bought cash to 15 days; customers pay 30-60 days; die cost 50% advance
Steel is 60-70% of cost and paid quickly; fuel weekly; customers 30-60 days; steel price rises absorbed till the next rate talk
Your screens use your words
CustomerPartyItemForgingInvoiceBillproductForgingemployeeHammer man
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a forging unit
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Forging unit", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a forging unitRoutines, 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 forging unit
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.
Works out yield (forged weight over cut weight) and fuel per tonne per part and hammer, and suggests cut-weight trials where flash loss is high
Works it out and shows you
Compares steel bar rates with each customer's price basis, drafts revision letters, and lists dues past 45 days with reminders
Asks you before sending
Keeps dates for factory licence, noise survey, guard inspections and accident records, and lists papers needed
Asks you before signing
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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
5:30 amFurnace light-up and billet cutting
- 1Light furnace; billets cut to set cut weight
- 2Billet temperature before first blow
7:00 amForging shift
- 1First-off forging checked against sample
- 2Ear defenders and face shield worn
5:00 pmEvening output and yield weighing
- 1Billets cut vs good forgings by count and weight; flash and scale
- 2Fuel used for the shift
Every week
MonDie condition and re-sink plan
- 1Pieces per die since last re-sink; dies showing wear or cracks sent to tool room
SatWeekly piece-rate wages
- 1Pieces per hammer crew at rate; advances
Every month
5thSteel index and price revision
- 1Steel bar rate this month vs rate in each customer's price
- 2Revision letter to customers above 3% change
- 3Dues past 45 days with reminders
Every year
DecFactory licence, noise and safety review
- 1Factory licence renewal; noise survey (under 90 dB(A) over 8 hours)
- 2Hammer guards, die keys and tongs inspected
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.
New part to dispatch
- 1Drawing or sample received and priced
- 2Die ordered from tool roomNeeds approval
- 3Trial forgings made
- 4Customer approves trialNeeds approval
- 5Production forged and trimmed
- 6Normalised and shot blasted
- 7Dispatched and billed
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.
Daily forging register
Die register
Steel bar stock
Forging temperature and cut weight
Sound forgings at the lowest steel use
Hammer safety
No crush injuries or hearing loss
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Carbon steel forgings (by kg) | 7326 | 18% |
| Alloy steel forgings (by kg) | 7326 | 18% |
| Hand-tool forged blank (spanner or plier) | 7326 | 18% |
| Agricultural implement forging (blade or tine) | 8432 | 5% |
| Tractor and auto aftermarket forging | 8708 | 18% |
| Forging job work on customer's steel | 998898 | 18% |
| Forging scrap and flash | 7204 | 18% |
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Factory licence
- Pollution consent (CTO)
- PF registration (EPFO)
- ESI registration (ESIC)
- Contract labour licenceIf it applies
- Fire NOCIf it applies
- Import Export Code (IEC)If 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.
OwnerPrices per kg or piece, buys steel, orders dies, customer relations, collections.
Shop supervisorDaily plan by order, cut weight, die changes, output weighing.
Heater (bhatti man)Lights furnace, heats billets to temperature.
Hammer manForges in the die, sets blows.
Trimmer and helperTrims flash, cools, sorts and counts.
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 forging unit?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Forging unit". 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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