eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Mechanical Engineering 2013-11-22 1 7 374 377 10.12691/ajme-1-7-44 AJME20131744 article František Menda frantisek.menda@tuke.sk 1 Patrik Šarga 1 František Trebuňa 1 Department of applied mechanics and mechatronics, Technical University of Košice / Faculty of mechanical engineering, Košice, Slovakia Tough competition in automotive industry requires to use all the possibilities for decreasing the production costs in connection with the increasing of the quality. Contact strip edge guiding system used in steel company is small part of the Galvanizing line but its replacement for contactless system will assure undeformed strip edges which will be no more just a costly scrap. The concept of a baffle automation is therefore proposed in this work. http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajme/1/7/44/ajme-1-7-44.pdf galvanizingstripcontactless sensorSolidWorksinductive sensor