Your customers
- Brass melters and extrusion mills
- Parts makers and exporters
- Plating shops
- Foreign buyers and their agents (TPI)
- Foundries and forging units
Metals and engineering · Services
MatruOS for a metal testing lab and TPI agency
Set up the way a metal testing lab and TPI agency runs: fees per test (spectro chemistry, hardness, tensile, XRF thickness, salt spray, microstructure) and per man-day of third-party inspection; monthly accounts with melters and mills. 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 metal testing lab and TPI agency deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Reports typed by hand from instrument printouts; errors and delays. Walk-in customers take reports on credit and never pay.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 7 routines, 2 workflows, 3 registers and 7 licences for a metal testing lab and TPI agency, 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.
Your suppliers
- Instrument makers (service contracts)
- Argon gas suppliers
- CRM and standard suppliers
- Calibration labs
- NABL
Credit and cash
Walk-ins pay before the report; account customers billed monthly and pay in 30 days; TPI billed per visit to the buyer or agent, 30-60 days
Instrument loans and service contracts are the big fixed cost; daily cash from walk-ins; monthly accounts and TPI receivables 30-60 days
Your screens use your words
OrderSampleItemTestInvoiceBillproductTestJobReport
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a metal testing lab and TPI agency
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Metal testing lab and TPI agency", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a metal testing lab and TPI agencyRoutines, 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 metal testing lab and TPI agency
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 argon use per burn and per day and CRM stock, and reminds to order before the cylinder or CRM runs out
Asks you before sending
Reads the instrument export, fills the report template with ULR, specification limits and pass or fail, and queues it for the technical manager's signature; finds old reports by sample number
Asks you before signing and sending
Sends walk-in customers a payment link and releases the report on payment; drafts monthly account and TPI bills and reminders
Asks you before sending
Keeps the calibration, PT, internal audit and NABL assessment calendar, plots CRM control charts and flags drift
Works it out and shows you
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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 amSpectro start-up and CRM check
- 1Argon purge; cylinder pressure noted
- 2Daily standardisation with setting-up samples
- 3CRM result within certified value and uncertainty
10:00 amReceive and number samples
- 1Sample number and ULR assigned; customer and tests noted
- 2Walk-in customers shown fee and payment link
5:30 pmReview, sign and release reports
- 1Check raw data against report
- 2Sign and release reports of paid or account customers
Every week
MonSalt spray chamber and equipment checks
- 1Chamber temperature
- 2Salt solution concentration
- 3Collection rate per 80 cm² per hour
Every month
1stBill account customers and TPI clients
- 1Bill each account customer for the month's samples
- 2Bill TPI clients per visit; send reminders for 30-day dues
5thInternal QC charts and calibration due list
- 1Plot CRM results; act on drift trends
- 2List instruments and gauges due for calibration in 60 days
Every year
Sep, OctNABL assessment, internal audit and PT
- 1Internal audit and management review done
- 2Proficiency testing results satisfactory for each discipline
- 3Surveillance or reassessment by NABL
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.
Sample to report
- 1Sample received and numbered
- 2Prepared and tested
- 3Reviewed and signedNeeds approval
- 4Payment received
- 5Report issued
Third-party inspection job
- 1Buyer order and inspection planNeeds approval
- 2Visit booked with factory
- 3Lot sampled and inspected
- 4Report reviewed and sent
- 5Billed
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.
Sample register
Instrument QC and calibration log
Inspection visit (TPI)
Valid test results
Report only results the lab can defend
Pre-shipment inspection sampling
Inspect a lot the way the buyer's contract says
Hardness tester daily check
Keep hardness results traceable
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spectro (OES) chemical analysis of brass | 998346 | 18% |
| Full wet chemical analysis | 998346 | 18% |
| Hardness test (Vickers or Rockwell) | 998346 | 18% |
| Tensile test | 998346 | 18% |
| XRF plating thickness | 998346 | 18% |
| Salt spray test (per 24 hours) | 998346 | 18% |
| Microstructure and dezincification test | 998346 | 18% |
| Third-party pre-shipment inspection | 998346 | 18% |
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- NABL accreditation
- Shops and Establishments registration
- Professional tax registrationIf 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.
Technical managerReviews and signs reports, validates methods, handles NABL assessments and complaints.
AnalystPrepares samples, runs spectro, hardness, XRF and other tests, keeps QC records.
InspectorVisits factories for TPI, samples lots, writes inspection reports.
Front deskReceives samples, assigns numbers, bills, hands over reports, collects payment.
Quality managerKeeps the quality system, calibration calendar, internal audits, PT rounds.
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 metal testing lab and TPI agency?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Metal testing lab and TPI agency". 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.
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