Your customers
- Induction furnace melt shops
- Own group steel plant
- Traders and brokers
- Dolochar buyers (brick kilns, power plants)
Metals and engineering · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a sponge iron (DRI) plant
Set up the way a sponge iron (DRI) plant runs: sponge iron lumps and fines price over ore, coal, dolomite and power; dolochar and fly ash sales; surplus captive power where allowed. 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 sponge iron (DRI) plant deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Coal quality varies lot to lot and coal per tonne rises without anyone seeing which lot. Accretion stops the kiln without warning.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 7 routines, 2 workflows, 3 registers and 11 licences for a sponge iron (DRI) plant, 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.
- Iron ore and coal
- DRI kiln
- induction furnace
- re-rolling mill
Your suppliers
- Iron ore mines and traders
- Coal suppliers and e-auction
- Dolomite quarries
- Refractory suppliers
- Transporters
Credit and cash
Ore and coal on advance or against e-auction deposits; sponge sold on advance or 7-15 days; claims on Fe(M) settled per truck
Raw material stock of 15-30 days paid in advance; sales mostly advance; heavy repairs after each kiln campaign
Your screens use your words
CustomerPartyOrderBookingItemSpongeInvoiceBillproductGradeBatchLot
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a sponge iron (DRI) plant
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Sponge iron (DRI) plant", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a sponge iron (DRI) plantRoutines, 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 sponge iron (DRI) plant
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 coal per tonne and output per kiln against each coal lot's quality; watches temperature and output trends for accretion and warns the plant head
Works it out and shows you
Attaches test reports to invoices, compares buyer tests with ours, drafts replies to claims, and bills every dolochar and ash truck
Asks you before sending
Keeps the calendar of stack monitoring, uploads, Form V, hazardous waste and fly ash returns and consent renewal; reminds the environment officer
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
6:00 amKiln shift readings
- 1Read all kiln zone temperatures; reduction zone about 950-1050 °C
- 2Note ore, coal and dolomite feed rates
- 3Note any ring or accretion signs: rising kiln shell temperature, drop in output
9:00 amCoal per tonne and output by kiln
- 1Total coal, ore and output for 24 hours per kiln
- 2Coal per tonne sponge against the lot's fixed carbon and ash
- 3Flag kilns trending to accretion
11:00 amFe(M) test on every dispatch truck
- 1Sample every truck and test Fe(M) and fines %
- 2Print test report with the invoice
Every week
MonWeekly ore and coal buying plan
- 1Stock days of ore and coal at current feed rates
- 2Compare landed cost and quality of coal offers and e-auctions
- 3Book next lots
Every month
7thMonthly stack and ambient monitoring record
- 1Stack particulate below consent limit (often 50 mg/Nm3)
- 2Fly ash and dolochar disposal quantities and buyers
- 3Upload monitoring data as the consent requires
Every year
SepAnnual environment statement and consent renewal
- 1File Form V environment statement by 30 September
- 2File hazardous waste annual return and fly ash utilisation report
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.
Sponge booking to claim settlement
- 1Booking with rate and Fe(M) basis
- 2Advance receivedNeeds approval
- 3Loaded weighed and tested
- 4Invoiced with test report
- 5Buyer test and claim settled
Coal lot purchase
- 1Offer or e-auction bidNeeds approval
- 2Lot received and sampled
- 3Quality deduction agreed
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.
Kiln shift log
Ore and coal lots
Dispatch and Fe(M) test
Sponge iron quality per dispatch
Avoid buyer claims
Kiln run and accretion control
Keep the kiln running a full campaign
Dust, fly ash and stack control
Keep the consent and avoid closure
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sponge iron lumps (Fe(M) 80% plus) | 7203 | 18% |
| Sponge iron fines | 7203 | 18% |
| Dolochar (char) | 2704 | 18% |
| Fly ash | 2621 | 5% |
| Kiln accretion and magnetic fines | 2619 | 18% |
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Factory licence
- Pollution consent (CTO)
- Hazardous waste authorisation
- Boiler registration and certificateIf it applies
- Fire NOC
- PF registration (EPFO)
- ESI registration (ESIC)
- Contract labour licence
- Weighing scale stamping
Your people
The people who run it, each with their own login
Each person sees the screens and reminders for the work they do.
Owner or directorOre and coal buying, sponge sales rate, bank and clearances.
Plant headRuns kilns, campaign planning, safety.
Kiln operatorFeed rates, air and coal injection, temperature profile.
Lab chemistOre and coal analysis, Fe(M) per truck.
Environment officerStack and ambient monitoring, ESP and dust control, returns.
Commercial and accountsBookings, dispatch, claims, GST, transport.
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 sponge iron (DRI) plant?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Sponge iron (DRI) plant". 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 sponge iron (DRI) plant 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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