For companies running cold rolling mills that produce metal strip for a multitude of uses – from razor blades, to cans for foodstuffs, to automobile fenders – monitoring the flatness of the mill’s output product is very important. Without careful control, the strip-stock can be elongated more on one edge than on the other or more at the middle of the strip than at the edges. UEI’s LAN-enabled remote data acquisition system – PowerDNA – helps to control the steel flatness. Besides its simplicity and low cost, this approach is compact, enabling Sendzimir to retrofit shape monitoring into existing small mills in which there is little room for instrumentation.