EMC Testing Labs in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes – Accredited Facilities

Groupe Emitech

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Groupe Emitech is France's largest independent environmental and EMC testing group, with over 30 years of experience and 17 testing centres, ten of which house EMC and radio laboratories. The group was built around electromagnetic testing and has grown by acquisition into a federation of specialist laboratories - Emitech, EMC, Eurocem, Adetests, L.E.F.A.E., Environne'Tech, PIEME, Emitech GNSS and Emitech R&D Moteurs - each holding its own COFRAC accreditation to ISO/IEC 17025 (Adetests 1-2472, EMC 1-7032, Emitech 1-7460, Emitech-GNSS 1-6924, Environne'Tech 1-1245, Eurocem 1-0744, Lefae 1-1972, R&D Moteurs 1-7740). Emitech itself is also COFRAC-accredited for calibration (2-7461) at Montigny and under ISO/IEC 17065 for product certification (5-0549), and operates as Notified Body No. 0536. The fleet is one of the most comprehensive in Europe and can run up to 230 simultaneous test campaigns: more than 50 Faraday cages including two dedicated to whole-vehicle EMC, mode-stirred reverberation chambers, over 140 climatic chambers, more than 50 electrodynamic vibrators up to 120 kN, hydraulic shakers and combined benches. The headline facility is a very large Faraday cage measuring 27 x 18 x 10.5 m in Ile-de-France, paired with a 4x4 chassis dynamometer running to 120 km/h for full-vehicle CISPR 12/25, ISO 11451, ISO 11452, ISO 7637 and ECE R10 work, plus AC/DC charging simulation and a driving robot. Recognition runs deep on the automotive side: Technical Service status with CNRV in France for R10 and with KBA in Germany via the ALEE alliance, JLR recognition at Montigny (JLR-EMC-CS v1.0 Amendment 4) and Stellantis (CS.00244), FCA (CS.00054) and Volvo recognition at the Sochaux/Etupes Eurocem centre. Aerospace credentials sit with the Lefae laboratory - NADCAP, Safran AQPS 573, Rolls-Royce SABRe 155070/001, Dassault Aviation Z37 and Airbus QTML 327973 - though these cover fire, flammability and environmental methods rather than EMC. IECEE recognition covers both National Certification Body and CB Testing Laboratory roles, and FCC and ISED recognitions support North American market access. Beyond EMC the group runs TEMPEST/EMSEC, cybersecurity, GNSS, battery, propulsion, hydraulic, fire, NVH and HALT/HASS testing, designs custom test benches, and provides simulation, regulatory expertise, metrology and Qualiopi-certified training.

Schneider Electric F-Lab (Volta & Amplitude)

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F-Lab is Schneider Electric's French testing and expertise centre in the Grenoble area, split across two platforms - F-Lab Volta at 28 rue Henri Tarze in Grenoble and F-Lab Amplitude at 31 rue Pierre Mendes France in Eybens - and connected to Schneider laboratories in the United States, China, Spain, India and Germany through the One Labs network. It occupies 14,000 m2, employs around 120 technicians, engineers and experts across five test poles, invests roughly one million euros a year in new test equipment and draws on 80 years of low- and medium-voltage systems experience. It is COFRAC-accredited to IEC/ISO 17025 under three separate numbers (1-0140, 1-6324 and 1-7287) and runs its own metrology laboratory. On the EMC side it operates two semi-anechoic chambers of 117 m3 and 486 m3 for emission and immunity work plus radiofrequency communication testing including 2.4 GHz protocols, but the reason to know about F-Lab is what surrounds the EMC chambers. Three power alternators (two of 600 MVA and one of 2,500 MVA) feed four tracks and six LV and HV test cells rated to AC 2,200 V / 300 kA for 1 s (700 kA peak) and DC 2,000 V / 200 kA for 1 s, supporting short-circuit breaking, short-time withstand current, electrical endurance and internal arc testing with X-ray observation. Climatic chambers run to 230 m3 for multi-stress testing, there is a 72 m3 acoustic chamber, vibration to 57 kN nominal sine force, dielectric HV testing, dimensional control, metallography and materials analysis. Third-party certification bodies including ASEFA, ASTA, LCIE, TUV Rheinland, DEKRA and OVE supervise testing on site under the IECEE OC scheme, and F-Lab is a founding member of the French high-power testing stations association ESEF for medium-voltage work. A Project Test Leader service manages certification programmes end-to-end with those bodies. Market focus is distinctive: military and merchant marine qualification with recognition from BV, RINA, DNV and Lloyd's and COFRAC accreditation for standards such as IACS E10 and Stanorg, EV charging station validation with E.V. Ready 1.461 and Z.E. Ready accreditations, and nuclear industry conformity testing including seismic qualification combining physical test and simulation.