Your customers
- Grey and SG iron foundries
- Steel foundries
- Non-ferrous foundries
- Pump
- Valve and engine OEMs (pattern owners)
Metals and engineering · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a foundry pattern shop
Set up the way a foundry pattern shop runs: price per pattern set (pattern plus core boxes), by size and complexity; repairs and modifications; match plates and core boxes for foundries. 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 foundry pattern shop deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Hours underestimated in quotes. Rush jobs before the pump season collide.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 8 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 5 licences for a foundry pattern shop, 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.
- OEM or foundry drawing
- pattern shop
- foundry trial
- OEM approval
Your suppliers
- Teak and pine timber sellers
- Plywood dealers
- Aluminium ingot and plate sellers
- Epoxy resin dealers
- CNC job shops
Credit and cash
30-50% advance on large sets from OEMs; foundries pay 30-90 days; timber and resin cash or 15 days
Material small; labour hours are the cost; payment often waits for the foundry's trial approval
Your screens use your words
CustomerPartyOrderPattern orderItemPattern setInvoiceBillproductPatternemployeePattern maker
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a foundry pattern shop
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Foundry pattern shop", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a foundry pattern shopRoutines, 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 foundry pattern shop
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.
Lists open patterns by foundry trial date, pulls the earlier drawing and allowances for repeat parts, and drafts delay notes
Asks you before sending
Works out actual hours and material per pattern against the quote and suggests hour rates and extra-correction charges
Works it out and shows you
Prepares bills for trial-approved patterns and reminders for dues past 45 days
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
9:00 amMorning job queue by trial date
- 1Open jobs by foundry trial date; carpenter and machine assignment
- 2Jobs waiting on drawing clarifications chased
10:00 amLayout and allowance check
- 1Contraction rule chosen for the casting metal
- 2Draft and machining allowances marked on layout
6:30 pmDaily hours per job
- 1Hours per job and work type
Every week
TueTrial follow-up with foundries
- 1Patterns delivered and awaiting trial; ask results
- 2Corrections listed; beyond two trials quoted extra
Every month
3rdQuoted vs actual hours
- 1Actual hours and material per finished job vs quote
- 2Update rate per hour and per cubic size
1stMonthly bills and dues
- 1Bills for approved patterns; dues past 45 days with reminders
Every year
FebTimber seasoning and stock
- 1Buy and stack teak and pine to season; moisture under 12% before use
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.
Pattern order to bill
- 1Drawing received and quoted
- 2Order confirmedNeeds approval
- 3Pattern and core boxes made
- 4Delivered to foundry
- 5Trial casting measured
- 6Customer approves trial castingNeeds approval
- 7Billed and paid
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.
Pattern job card
Hours log
Drawing and pattern library
Pattern allowances
Right casting size at first trial
Trial casting acceptance
Written approval before billing and free corrections end
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Wooden pattern with core box (small) | 8480 | 18% |
| Wooden pattern with core boxes (large) | 8480 | 18% |
| Aluminium match plate pattern | 8480 | 18% |
| Cast iron or steel pattern | 8480 | 18% |
| Epoxy resin pattern | 8480 | 18% |
| Core box (separate) | 8480 | 18% |
| Pattern repair and modification | 998729 | 18% |
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Factory licenceIf it applies
- PF registration (EPFO)If it applies
- ESI registration (ESIC)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.
Master pattern makerReads drawings, sets allowances and parting line, quotes, attends trials.
Pattern carpenterMakes wooden patterns and core boxes, fits and finishes.
MachinistTurns and mills metal patterns, CNC work.
Accounts and dispatch personBills, payments, delivery to foundries.
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 foundry pattern shop?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Foundry pattern shop". 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
Other makers and factories in metals and engineering
Run a foundry pattern shop 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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