Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Mechanical Engineering 1 7 2013 11 22 Edge BafflesAutomation 374 377 EN František Menda Department of applied mechanics and mechatronics, Technical University of Košice / Faculty of mechanical engineering, Košice, Slovakia Patrik Šarga František Trebuňa AJME20131744 10.12691/ajme-1-7-44 2013 10 04 2013 10 20 2013 11 22 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.