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Learning on live equipment

ELCI's laboratories double as training floors, research benches and service points — so every course hour also builds the region's capacity to test, verify and recover.

Our laboratories

ESD repair and rework workshop

Board-level diagnosis and rework on seeded-fault and live units.

Keeps assets in service

Test and quality release laboratory

Functional test levels T0–T5, inspection and quality gates QG1–QG4.

Makes repaired equipment as trusted as new

Fibre optics laboratory

Splicing, OTDR and power testing, PON (OLT/ONU, splitters) and traceable optical radiometry.

Extends network life; skills for broadband roll-out

Calibration and type-approval laboratory

Calibration of RF, BER, timing and optical instruments; verification of ICT equipment against ITU, ETSI, IEC and IEEE standards.

Proposed Keeps test equipment accurate; screens non-compliant imports

Data sanitisation and recovery bay

Certified data erasure to NIST SP 800-88, battery assessment and segregation of hazardous fractions.

Makes reuse safe; routes residues to licensed recovery

Circularity data studio

Mass balance, circularity indicators, GHG and avoided-emissions accounting.

Turns field activity into verifiable ESG evidence

Teardown and design studio

Product teardown, repairability scoring and design-for-repair projects.

Designs repair in from the start

Dismantling and pre-processing hall

Safe depollution, manual dismantling and sorting, with weighed records for every fraction.

Keeps hazards out of land, air and water

Assay and metal recovery laboratory

Sampling, XRF screening and bench-scale hydrometallurgy, with a university or industry partner.

Partner laboratory Recovers the metals of the Third Mine

Applied engineering services

Commission the institute

Operators, utilities, hospitals, manufacturers and regulators can commission ELCI's laboratories and engineers. Service fees fund bursaries and research.

  • Failure analysis and root-cause investigation
  • Repair-process qualification
  • Test-equipment calibration
  • Technician competency audits
  • Circularity and ESG baselining
  • Data sanitisation with certificates

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How quality is assured

Four quality gates on every unit

QG1

Receiving: identity, condition, custody and Passport ID recorded.

QG2

Diagnosis review: cause confirmed; repair or Beyond Economic Repair decided on evidence.

QG3

Final test: the unit is proven against its specification.

QG4

Release: a certified inspector signs, with a warranty behind the signature.