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Metals and engineering · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a hand tools maker
Set up the way a hand tools maker runs: sale of spanners, pliers, hammers, screwdrivers, sets and agricultural hand tools to wholesalers, dealers, export buyers and government buyers. 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 hand tools maker deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Lots spread across forging, heat treatment and plating job workers; nobody knows where a size is. Steel and plating prices rise after the price list is printed.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 8 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 13 licences for a hand tools 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.
- steel
- forging job shop
- hand tool maker
- wholesaler
- retailer
- mechanic or farmer; exports through buying agents
Your suppliers
- Steel stockists (CrV and carbon steel)
- Forging job shops
- Heat treatment job shops
- Chrome plating job workers
- Handle and grip makers
- Box and blister pack makers
Credit and cash
Wholesalers 30-60 days with schemes; export by advance, LC or 60-90 days through buying agents; steel cash or 15 days; job workers weekly or monthly
Steel paid early; tools sit in forging, heat treatment and plating for 3-6 weeks; wholesalers pay 45-75 days later
Your screens use your words
CustomerDealerItemSizeInvoiceBill
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a hand tools 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 "Hand tools maker", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a hand tools 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 hand tools 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.
Shows every lot by stage and job worker with days out and rejects, lists lots due today and those holding up dispatches, and lists ITC-04 entries
Works it out and shows you
Recomputes cost by tool and size at current rates and flags items under the margin floor
Works it out and shows you
Drafts statements and reminders, and lists sizes and sets short for open orders
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-work lot status
- 1Lots at each job worker and days out
- 2Lots due back today
- 3Lots needed for this week's dispatches
2:00 pmLot hardness and torque test
- 1Hardness of spanner sample
- 2Proof torque on sample without permanent set
- 3Plating free of peel and rust spots
Every week
Sat 4:00 pmWeekly job worker settlement
- 1Pieces sent against good pieces back per job worker
- 2Debit rejects beyond the agreed limit
- 3Owner approves payments
Every month
5thMonthly steel and job-work costing
- 1Note steel, forging and plating rates
- 2Recompute cost by tool and size
- 3Flag items under margin floor
8thMonthly wholesaler dues and reorders
- 1Statements and reminders to wholesalers
- 2Sizes and sets below minimum stock
20thExport order inspection and shipment
- 1Buyer inspection booked and passed
- 2Marking and packing as per buyer specification
- 3Export incentive and drawback papers with the shipping bill
Every year
AprYearly price list and buyer audit preparation
- 1Issue new price list
- 2Prepare for export buyers' social and quality audits
- 3Calibrate hardness tester and torque tester
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.
Production lot through job workers to stock
- 1Bars cut and sent for forging
- 2Forged lot back and trimmed
- 3Heat treated and tested
- 4Plated and finished
- 5Packed and labelled
- 6Lot releasedNeeds approval
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.
Job-work lot register (forging, heat treatment, plating)
Hardness and torque test record
Size and set stock book
Hardness and torque testing
Tools do not open up, crack or slip in use
Packing and marking
Every tool and set carries the marks the law and the buyer ask for
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Double open-end spanner 12x13 mm (CrV) | 8204 | 18% |
| Ring spanner 17x19 mm | 8204 | 18% |
| Spanner set 8 pieces (6-22 mm) | 8204 | 18% |
| Combination plier 8 inch | 8203 | 18% |
| Ball pein hammer 500 g with handle | 8205 | 18% |
| Screwdriver set 6 pieces | 8205 | 18% |
| Adjustable wrench 10 inch | 8204 | 18% |
| Kassi or phawda (spade) without handle | 8201 | 0% |
| Khurpi (hand hoe) | 8201 | 0% |
| Sickle (darati) | 8201 | 0% |
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Factory licence
- PF registration (EPFO)
- ESI registration (ESIC)
- Packaged commodities registration (Legal Metrology)
- Import Export Code (IEC)If it applies
- Export council membership (RCMC)If it applies
- BIS licence (ISI mark)If it applies
- GeM seller registrationIf it applies
- TrademarkIf it applies
- Pollution consent (CTO)If it applies
- Professional tax registrationIf 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.
OwnerFixes price lists, handles export buyers and wholesalers, buys steel.
Production managerPlans lots by size, sends lots to job workers, chases returns.
Forging and press operatorHeats bars, forges, trims flash.
Grinder and finisherGrinds, polishes, broaches jaws, fits grips.
QC inspectorHardness and torque tests, buyer inspections.
Dispatch and accounts clerkPacks sets with labels, invoices, export documents, dealer ledgers.
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 hand tools maker?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Hand tools 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
Other makers and factories in metals and engineering
Run a hand tools 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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