We build forges and foundries that run themselves.
General Mettle builds the machines and the intelligence that move, finish, inspect and schedule your castings and forgings without a person on the line. The cell is a standard unit, the same in every plant, and the Brain configures it to your line in days.
Built in Bengaluru. Installed in plants across India and the United States.
You know this room.
One person moves every glowing billet by hand in a forge, and half the workforce grinds castings by hand in a foundry. These are the jobs you cannot keep staffed, and they are the jobs we take on first.
A machine built for hot and rough metal, with no cage.
It carries the billet from furnace to press to trim and finishes castings, seeing each part with its own cameras and adapting to it. We build the eyes, the hands and the brain, and we mount them on proven, rugged motion hardware.
Every part inspected, not a sample.
It reads metal through heat, glare and scale, catches every crack, pore and dimensional error, and stores the result against the part number.
Your plant's foreman, and it never goes home.
It plans production across furnaces, presses and cells, predicts which die or batch will fail before it does, and tells your people exactly where they are needed.
One agent runs the whole floor.
The Brain is a plant-level agent. It watches every line at once, decides what runs next, and acts without waiting for a supervisor to notice.
- It schedules which die runs on which press, so the furnace never waits and nothing idles.
- It reads every strike, every pour and every inspection, and says which die has four hundred strikes left and which batch is heading for scrap.
- It observes, decides, acts, and then checks that the action worked.
- When it meets something it has not seen, it stops and sends one of your people a clear instruction, not an alarm.
- It starts by recommending, and your people approve. It acts on its own only once it has been right on your line for months.
- Every plant it runs teaches it to run the next one better.
What the Eye sees on your line.
Nothing you own gets rewired. Cameras and sensors are placed where the questions are, and every reading goes into the record for that part.
At the furnace
The temperature of every billet as it comes out, so a cold one goes back and a hot one goes to the press.
On the carriage
A visible and a thermal camera that find the billet where it actually is, so the gripper corrects itself on every pick.
Over the die
The die face between strikes, where wear shows first as uneven heat and a slowly changing impression.
On the press
The force curve and the sound of every strike, which change before the parts do.
At the trim
Every finished part measured and checked for cracks and surface defects, with the result written against its number.
On the machines
Current clamps on the furnace, press and trim motors, so the Brain knows what each machine is doing even when it has no data port.
Four things that did not exist.
Vision for metal at forging temperature.
It finds a billet through scale and shimmer, and a crack in a rough casting under bad light.
A machine that learns a part instead of being programmed.
Show it a new part a few times and a changeover takes an afternoon.
Sensors that see a failure before it reaches your parts.
A tired die and a bad melt both leave signs in the data first, and we read them.
Software that runs the line and knows when to call a person.
It handles the shift and hands the rare exception to your people with a clear instruction.
A fraction of conventional automation, and no integration engineering.
Conventional cells are built for a precision a forge never needs, and every new part needs an engineer to program it.
We put the precision in the cameras and the software instead, so the cell costs a fraction of a conventional one, calibrates itself, and learns a new part from a few demonstrations. The written note after your floor visit gives you your own numbers, from your own line.
Every generation automated the room it could see into.
- 1913
The moving line
The work moves past the worker, and a person stands at every station.
- 1961
The first robot
One arm, one fixed motion, one fixed part.
- 1980s
Numbers control the machine
Cutting and assembly are automated wherever every part is the same.
- 2011
The connected factory
Sensors reach the clean rooms and stop at the door of the forge.
- 2026
Intelligence enters the forge
Machines that see, learn and decide enter the rooms that shape hot metal.
- next
The plant that runs itself
Furnace, press, mould and pour under one intelligence.
How it works on your floor.
- 1
We spend a day on your floor and pick the line that costs you the most.
- 2
We install one cell and connect the Brain to the machines you already own.
- 3
The line runs its first unattended shift and you see the results on your phone.
- 4
We take on the next line once the first has paid for itself.
What you get.
Your lines produce through the shifts you could not staff.
Nobody on your payroll stands in the most dangerous job in the plant.
Every part you ship carries an inspection record your customer can open.
Dies and batches stop failing by surprise.
Your customers in automotive, aerospace and defence are asking for more capacity than you can staff, and now you can say yes.
Every line we run teaches the system to run the next one better.
How we are building the future of forging and foundries.
We take the dangerous jobs first, then the judgment, one line at a time, until the plant runs itself and your people supervise it from a screen. Each step pays for the next, and you can stop at any stage and still be ahead.
Billet transfer and casting finishing
The two jobs we take on first.
Inspection of every part
The Eye checks every part on the same line.
Melt, mould and die intelligence
The Brain predicts what will fail before it does.
Autonomous pouring
The last job a person does in a foundry.
We build for the forging and foundry industry.
The plants that shape hot metal for automotive, energy, rail, aerospace and defence.
Show us your hardest line.
A floor visit costs you nothing. We spend a day on your line and you receive a plain written note on what one cell would do to your output, your rejects and your headcount.