{"id":3,"date":"2019-06-03T09:25:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T13:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/PLM-Components-Blog\/Kineo-Flexible-Cables-first-commercial-application-for-dress\/ba-p\/598477"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:02:13","slug":"kineo-flexible-cables-first-commercial-application-for-dress-pack-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/kineo-flexible-cables-first-commercial-application-for-dress-pack-simulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Kineo Flexible Cables \u2013 first commercial application for dress pack simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently announced the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Knowledge-Base\/Kineo-Flexible-Cables-Version-7-0-Highlights\/ta-p\/577431\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Kineo Flexible Cables version 7.0<\/a>, a software component for modeling compliant cables.<\/p>\n<p>The software has applications in industrial robot simulation for predicting the behavior and performance of <em>dress packs<\/em> \u2013 bundles of pneumatic hoses and\/or electrical cables that control and power industrial robots.<\/p>\n<p>Version 7.0 introduced tools for simulating cable rotation and retraction systems in dress packs. These systems retain slack cable in a protected zone and reduce the risk of cables interfering with the robot\u2019s operating environment, which can result in damage and downtime.<\/p>\n<p>Digital Industries Software has integrated version 7.0 of Kineo Flexible Cables in Tecnomatix Process Simulate software, to deliver the first commercial implementation of this valuable simulation technology. The video below illustrates how to set up and simulate a cable in Process Simulate and includes a retraction system.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-embed-center video-embed\"><\/div>\n<p>You can find further examples of cable rotation and retraction systems in <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/videos-process-simulate-robotics-enables-realistic-simulation-and-validation-of-various-industrial-cable-dresspacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">this Process Simulate article on the Tecnomatix blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Additional information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/media\/global\/en\/Siemens-PLM-Kineo-Flexible-Cables-fs-61422-A4_tcm27-60703.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Kineo Flexible Cables (fact sheet)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li><a style=\"font-family: inherit;background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/global\/en\/products\/tecnomatix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Tecnomatix<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n     We recently announced the release of Kineo Flexible Cables version 7.0, a software component for modeling compliant cables. <\/p>\n<p> The software has applications in industrial robot s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49853,"featured_media":7,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-kineo"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/09\/process-simulate-cable-retraction-2-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/plm-components\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}