ESI Group, pioneer and world-leading solution provider in Virtual Prototyping for manufacturing industries, announces the launch of Visual-Environment 9.0. ESI’s multi-domain simulation platform hosts most of ESI’s Virtual Prototyping solutions, and is open to third party technologies. ESI’s platform enables industrial users to automate all their Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) processes from Computer-Aided Design (CAD), through pre- and post-processing, modeling, simulation and visualization, to reporting in any CAE domain; all in a unified environment.