A method for fitting a cable bushing onto a cable includes: providing a fitting region; providing a mandrel at the fitting region, the mandrel being hollow to receive a cable therethrough; pushing a cable bushing onto the hollow mandrel; directing a camera towards the fitting region; providing at least two stripping jaws to grasp the cable bushing, the providing step including the step of providing at least rotatable one of the stripping jaws in rotatable manner to rotate on respective a stripping jaw rotation axis that is laterally offset from a camera an optical axis of the camera; rotating the at least one of the stripping jaws towards closing to grasp the cable bushing with the stripping jaws; pushing a cable into the hollow mandrel; executing a relative movement between the hollow mandrel and the stripping jaws to push the cable bushing onto the cable; and rotating the at least one of the stripping jaws to open them to an a selected open extent that permits the camera to have an unimpeded view of the fitted cable bushing.