On Tuesday, the 20^th of March 2012 the project partners met at the Chair for Design Engineering (KIMA) in the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau for a first common working session in this year. On the schedule were the first annual report for the past year 2011, as well as an outlook for the upcoming research activities within the framework of the project ERMA. The experiments and measurements performed on Thursday, the 8^th of March 2012, at Volvo’s Plant in Konz have been further discussed.