Your customers
- Fabricators and welding shops
- Panel and enclosure makers
- Kitchen and furniture makers
- Signage and architectural firms
- Machine builders and OEMs
Metals and engineering · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a laser cutting and bending shop
Set up the way a laser cutting and bending shop runs: cutting charge on cut length and pierces or per machine hour on customer sheets; parts with material by kg or piece; bending per bend. 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 laser cutting and bending shop deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Every DXF is quoted by hand and quotes go late. Nitrogen cost per job is not known, so SS jobs are underpriced.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 8 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 7 licences for a laser cutting and bending 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.
- Stockist or service centre
- laser job shop
- fabricator, panel maker or OEM
- coating
- end user
Your suppliers
- Steel and stainless stockists
- Gas suppliers (nitrogen and oxygen)
- Laser service and spares firms
- Power utility
Credit and cash
Regular fabricators pay 15-45 days; walk-ins pay cash or UPI before delivery; OEMs 45-60 days; machine EMIs monthly
Machine EMI and power monthly; material bought for supply jobs; 15-45 days receivables
Your screens use your words
CustomerPartyOrderJobItemPartInvoiceBillproductCutting or partBatchNest
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a laser cutting and bending 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 "Laser cutting and bending shop", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a laser cutting and bending 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 laser cutting and bending 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.
Reads cut length, pierces and part size from the DXF or nesting report, prices cutting, gas, material and bends, and drafts the quote
Asks you before sending
Works out beam-on hours, gas use and Rs per hour per job and machine, and flags underpriced jobs and idle hours
Works it out and shows you
Bills delivered jobs, drafts weekly statements with remnant balances, and lists overdue parties
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
8:00 amMachine start checks
- 1Clean protective lens; check nozzle and centring
- 2Chiller water temperature in range (about 22-25 °C)
- 3Gas pressure set for the day's material
- 4Fume extractor running
8:30 amNest and schedule the shift
- 1Nest approved jobs of the same material and thickness together
- 2Use customer remnants first where the job allows
- 3Nesting yield above 80% on full sheets
10:00 amQuote incoming DXFs
- 1Open each DXF; check scale, closed contours and revision
- 2Get cut length and pierce count from the nesting software
- 3Price cut length, pierces, gas type, material and bends; send quote
8:00 pmShift beam-on hours and gas
- 1Beam-on hours and downtime from the controller
- 2Nitrogen and oxygen used
Every week
SatWeekly customer statements
- 1Bill all delivered jobs
- 2Send statements and remnant balances
Every month
2ndMonthly machine utilisation and Rs per hour
- 1Billing per machine vs beam-on hours
- 2Compare with EMI, power and gas cost
- 3Revise rates for low-margin materials
Every year
AprAMC renewal and insurance
- 1Renew machine AMC and insurance
- 2Review gas contract (liquid nitrogen tank vs cylinders)
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.
DXF to delivered parts and bill
- 1DXF received and checked
- 2Quote sent
- 3Customer approves quoteNeeds approval
- 4Nested and cut
- 5Bent and checked
- 6Delivered with challan
- 7Billed
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 cards
Machine and gas log
Customer sheets and remnants
Laser machine safety
No burns, eye injuries or fires
First-piece bend check
Parts fit at the customer's assembly
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Laser cutting job work MS (per metre cut) | 998898 | 18% |
| Laser cutting job work SS with nitrogen (per metre) | 998898 | 18% |
| Pierce charge | 998898 | 18% |
| Laser machine hour | 998898 | 18% |
| CNC bending charge | 998898 | 18% |
| Laser-cut MS parts with material | 7326 | 18% |
| Laser-cut SS parts with material | 7326 | 18% |
| Skeleton and offcut scrap | 7204 | 18% |
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Factory licence
- PF registration (EPFO)
- ESI registration (ESIC)
- Pollution consent (CTO)If it applies
- Fire NOC
Your people
The people who run it, each with their own login
Each person sees the screens and reminders for the work they do.
OwnerQuotes, big customers, machine EMIs and service, collections.
CAD and nesting operatorChecks DXF, nests, sets parameters, cut length and pierce count.
Laser operatorLoads sheets, runs machine, changes nozzles and lenses.
Press brake operatorBending to drawing, first-piece angle check.
Dispatch and billing clerkDelivery challans, bills, customer sheet ledger.
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 laser cutting and bending shop?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Laser cutting and bending 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 laser cutting and bending 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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