On Friday, the 16^th of December 2011 the project partners met for the third working session within the joint project ERMA - Energy and resource efficient working machines. Main focus was put on the measurements performed on test vehicles on Wednesday, the 14^th of December. Based on that optimization potentials were deduced and solution approaches for future mobile working machines narrowed down. [weiter]

The website of the Technical University Kaiserslautern, those of all associated research institutions and projects are completely re-designed. The web page of the ERMA joint project has received a new neat and modern design in the last few weeks also. With its significantly extended content, as long as the new layout and design the new website will allow easier and faster access to project specific informations. [more]

At the invitation of the Center for Commercial Vehicle Technology (ZNT) at the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau the project partners presented the joint project “ERMA - Energy and resource efficient mobile working machines” within the frame of the CVC annual meeting on Thursday, November the 3^rd 2011, in the Mercedes-Benz Plant of Daimler Inc. in Wörth. [more]

On Friday, the 21^st of October 2011, the project partners have met for second common working session within the joint project "ERMA - Energy and resource efficient mobile working machines". Central topics of the meeting were the current state of the project and possible potentials for optimisation. [more]

On Wednesday, the 10^th of August 2011, at the invitation of the Volvo Construction Equipement GmbH & Co. KG company the involved Institutes have visited the factory in Konz. In the program of the first consortia meeting within the joint project "ERMA - Energy and resource efficient mobile working machines" were alongside the test drive of the experimental machine also a workshop about energy and recourse efficient excavator conceps. [more]

On Monday, the 27^th of June 2011, the project partners have met for the first common working session within the joint project "ERMA - Energy and resource efficient mobile working machines". Central topics of the meeting were the current state of the project and the cooperation with the associated partner. [more]

At the invitation of the Volvo company the project partners have presented the joint project “ERMA - Energy and resource efficient mobile working machines” within the international Volvo researchers' meeting that took place from the 16^th until the 17^th of May 2011 in Sweden. [more] 

Energy and resource efficiency in the harsh use of machines on the construction site: four institutes are working together: KIMA (Chair of Design Engineering), MEGT (Institute of Machine Elements, Gears and Transmissions), MEC (Institute of Mechatronics in Mechanical Engineering and Vehicle Technology) and VPE Institute of Virtual Product Development. Funded by the Foundation for Innovation Rheinland-Pfalz and using a mobile excavator of the Volvo CE company as a test machine new concepts and methods for improvement of energy and resource efficiency are being developed. [more]

Rising fuel prices, scarcity of fossil resources and raw materials and also the accelerated climate change due to CO₂ emissions had have significant influence on the development in the automotive industry in the last years. Engine power and size are not most important for the client anymore, but rather the fuel consumption and alternative drive concepts. [more]

On Friday, the 18^th of February 2011, the project partners met for the common start of the Research Project "Energy and resource efficient mobile working machines". The company Volvo Construction Equipment GmbH & Co. KG was won as an associated partner for the joint project. [more]

The Foundation for Innovation Rheinland-Pfalz approved the proposal of the research group for Product Development at the Center for Commercial Vehicle Technology of the Technical University Kaiserslautern for realisation of the proposal "ERMA - Energy and resource efficient mobile working machines". The joint project of the four research institutes starts at the 1^st of February 2011 and has running time of three years. [more]