Your customers
- Machine makers needing installation at buyers' sites
- Factories expanding or shifting
- Sugar, cement, textile and paper mills (shutdowns)
- EPC and PEB contractors
- Steel plants and PSUs (tenders)
Metals and engineering · Services
MatruOS for a machine erection and shifting business
Set up the way a machine erection and shifting business runs: erection per tonne or per machine, plant dismantling and shifting lump sums, alignment and grouting, mill shutdown overhauls, crane and trailer hire margins, manpower supply for shutdowns. 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 machine erection and shifting business deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Extra work on verbal instruction is never billed. Crane bills include idle hours that should be claimed from the client.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 8 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 9 licences for a machine erection and shifting business, 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.
- Machine maker or EPC
- erection contractor
- factory owner
Your suppliers
- Crane, hydra and trailer owners
- Rigging tools, jacks, skates and slings
- Grout, shims and foundation bolts
- Laser alignment hire
- Labour contractors (sub-gangs)
Credit and cash
Clients: 10-30% mobilisation advance on bigger jobs, running bills every 15-30 days certified by the engineer, 30-60 days payment, 5-10% retention till completion or defects period, TDS 2%. Crane owners paid weekly; wages paid weekly or fortnightly
Wages and crane hire are paid weekly while clients pay in 30-60 days; retention and extra-work claims lock 10-15% of turnover
Your screens use your words
CustomerClientOrderWork orderItemJobInvoiceRA billJobSite
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a machine erection and shifting business
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Machine erection and shifting", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a machine erection and shifting businessRoutines, 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 machine erection and shifting business
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.
Turns the supervisor's voice note or photo into the diary entry and lists work outside the work order scope for a signed extra-work note
Works it out and shows you
Matches crane bills with site hours and marks idle days caused by the client for a claim
Works it out and shows you
Drafts the measurement sheet and RA bill with extra items and claims, and lists retentions due
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 amToolbox talk and permit check
- 1Brief the gang on today's lifts and hazards
- 2Permit to work signed by the client for hot work, height and lifting
6:30 pmSite diary and extra work note
- 1Enter work done, workers and crane hours
- 2Write extra work ordered by the client with name and get it signed
Every week
SatWeekly wages and compliance
- 1Total days and overtime from muster; pay wages by bank
- 2Update ESIC and EPF contributions due
MonCrane hours reconciliation
- 1Match crane owner's bill with site diary hours
- 2Mark idle days caused by the client for claim
Every month
1stRunning account bill
- 1Prepare measurement sheet and get it certified by the client engineer
- 2Raise RA bill with extra items and crane idle claims
20thRetention and final bills follow-up
- 1List completed jobs with retention and final bills pending
- 2Send completion certificates and reminders
Every year
MarLicences, insurance and sling certificates
- 1Renew employee compensation policy and contract labour licences
- 2Get slings, shackles and jacks examined and certified
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.
Erection job to final payment
- 1Site visit and quotation
- 2Work order and safety documentsNeeds approval
- 3Mobilised with gang and crane
- 4Erected and aligned
- 5Measurement certifiedNeeds approval
- 6RA and final bills paid
- 7Retention released
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.
Site diary
Measurement and RA bill book
Labour muster and wages
Rigging and lift plan
No dropped loads and no injuries
Machine levelling and shaft alignment
Machines run without vibration or bearing failures
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Machine erection (per tonne) | 998732 | 18% |
| Machine unloading and placing on foundation | 998732 | 18% |
| Plant dismantling and shifting (lump sum) | 998732 | 18% |
| Levelling and alignment with grouting | 998732 | 18% |
| Laser shaft alignment | 998717 | 18% |
| Mill shutdown overhaul manpower | 998519 | 18% |
| Structural and conveyor erection (per tonne) | 995468 | 18% |
| Crane hire with operator (resold) | 997319 | 18% |
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Contract labour licenceIf it applies
- PF registration (EPFO)
- ESI registration (ESIC)
- Insurance policyIf it applies
- Government contractor registrationIf it applies
- Professional tax registrationIf it applies
- Shops and Establishments 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.
ProprietorQuotes and visits sites, deals with client engineers, hires cranes, collects bills.
Site supervisorPlans lifts, runs gangs, keeps site diary, gets measurements certified.
Rigger foremanRigging plans, slings and jacks, signals crane.
Millwright and fitterLevelling, alignment, coupling, grouting.
Safety and labour clerkMuster, wages, ESIC and EPF, permits, insurance papers.
AccountsRA bills, GST, TDS, retention tracking.
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 machine erection and shifting business?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Machine erection and shifting". 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 machine erection and shifting business 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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