Abstract: A method monitors a supply system of a robot having a robot arm and a robot hand movable relative thereto. The supply system has a supply chain, in particular a cable assembly, and a guide for the supply chain. The supply chain is guided along the robot arm in order to supply the robot hand. The supply system also has a number of sensors for monitoring at least one state variable of the supply system. The functional capability of the supply system is concluded, inferred or predicted from values for the state variable that are determined by the sensors.

Abstract: A monitoring system is used to monitor the bending load of at least one strand-shaped element. The strand-shaped element is subjected to bending during operation, extends in a longitudinal direction. The element has a sheath, in which a recess is formed on the circumferential side, at least in sections. A pressure-sensitive sensor element lies in the recess and emits a sensor signal in the event of a pressure load.

Abstract: A method monitors a supply system of a motor vehicle, in particular a high-voltage supply system of an electrically driven motor vehicle. The supply system contains at least two electric components which are connected together via a cable. The cable is part of the supply system which additionally has a number of sensors for monitoring at least one state variable of the supply system. State variable values which are ascertained by the sensors are used to infer the functionality of the supply system.

Abstract: A method monitors a supply system of a robot having a robot arm and a robot hand movable relative thereto. The supply system has a supply chain, in particular a cable assembly, and a guide for the supply chain. The supply chain is guided along the robot arm in order to supply the robot hand. The supply system also has a number of sensors for monitoring at least one state variable of the supply system. The functional capability of the supply system is concluded, inferred or predicted from values for the state variable that are determined by the sensors.

Abstract: A method produces a cable. A sheath is applied to a product in strand form and the product in strand form is supplied, for this purpose, to an apparatus which has a bath containing a curable material. A build-up zone is formed in the bath, within which build-up zone the curable material is at least partially cured by an exposure source and through which the product in strand form is conveyed lengthwise in a conveying direction, so that cured material is arranged on the product in strand form and is conveyed out of the bath together with the product in strand form as a sheath on the product in strand form.

Abstract: A heavy-current cable, in particular a charging cable, has an outer jacket, a number of heavy-current cores which extend in the longitudinal direction, and at least one cooling jacket with at least one hollow chamber extending in the longitudinal direction for conducting a coolant. A power supply system, in particular a charging system for a hybrid or electric vehicle, has such a corresponding heavy-current cable.