The sections and units in this departmemts are directly under the supervision of The Director Research and Development. They include:
Equipment and Material Testing Laboratory
Advance Manufacturing
Metallurgical Material Research and Development
Electrical Eletronic Research and Development
Machine Design/Machine Building Research and Development
Automobile Technology Machine (ATM)
Glassblowing Research and Development
ICT Research and Development
Technical Documentation
A range of highly precise and reliable technique is used in our laboratory to determine the characteristics of materials, what we look out for are: mechanical properties, elemental composition, corrosion reistance and the effect of heat treatment. Our laboratory also verifies equipment performance; identifying of defects at system and component level.
In this section innovative technology is used to improve production, the activities carried out here is an advancement from what we do in our machine shop.The following are the characteristics of Advanced Manufacturing section in SEDI-Enugu: products produced from high level design, complex and superior technology is used, cutting edge and innovative process is used to acheive result. This section was recently upgraded to meet world standard Advance Manufacturing requirement, and in-line with the expectation of Federal Government.
Metallurgical Material Research and Development section researchs and produces materials that power most of our manufacturing activities. Advances in material development impact nearly every aspect of SEDI's activities. They transform the earth's mineral resources into advance alloys and other materials. The section has also succeeded in some aspect of waste recycling; like making bricks from rice husk amongs other activities. It's also worthy of mentioning that the materials used to make the inner walls of the furnance in the foundry was made in this section.
This section deals with the technology of electricity, especially the design and application of circuitry and equipment for power generation and distribution, machine control and communication amongs other areas of interest
Glassblowing Research and Development reviews the transformation of glassblowing from the early days of Free-blowing, to the recent techniques of mold-blowing, and creates complex products, that serves advance needs. They collaborate seemlessly with with manufacturing services department and other section in research and development.
ICT(Research and Development) section analyzes the needs of scientist and engineers in the institutes amongs other users, and then design, test and develop software to meet those needs. They also recommend software upgrades for staffs' exixting programs and systems. And they design each piece of applications or sytem and plan how the pieces will work together for the institute.
This section creates and houses a database of documents with products-related data and information; it has the detials of all product that is either under development or already in use. As long as the product was manufactured in SEDI-Enugu, the technical details, drawing, images at every stage is documented by the Technical Documentation section. And these technical information is available on web format or hardcopy.