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ESI Group

ESI Group
32605 W 12 Mile Rd, Suite 350
Farmington Hills, Michigan, 48334
United States of America
ESI Group is a leading innovator in Virtual Prototyping software and services. Specialist in material physics, ESI has developed a unique proficiency in helping industrial manufacturers replace physical prototypes by virtually replicating the fabrication, assembly and testing of products in different environments. Today, coupled with Virtual Reality, animated by systems models, and benefiting from data analytics, Virtual Prototyping becomes immersive and interactive: ESI's clients can bring their products to life, ensuring reliable performance, serviceability and maintainability. ESI solutions help world-leading OEM's and innovative companies in making sure that their products will pass certification tests - before any physical prototype is built - and that new products are competitive in their market space. Virtual Prototyping addresses the emerging need for products to be smart and autonomous and supports industrial manufacturers in their digital transformation.


ESI Group in the News

ESI OpenCFD Launches OpenFOAM v2306

This release extends OpenFOAM-v2212 features across many areas of the code.

Keysight Acquires ESI Group

This acquisition expands Keysight’s application layer portfolio with simulation capabilities.

EMPHYSIS Helps Link Digital Simulation and Embedded Software

The research project EMPHYSIS led by Bosch has delivered the new “eFMI standard” for model exchange to accelerate the model-based development of embedded software, the…

Editor’s Pick: Extending popular open source CFD platform

ESI Group says OpenFOAM has an extensive range of features to solve “anything from complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and heat transfer, to…

Editor’s Picks: July 8-14, 2021

One of the picks will be chosen as DE’s Editor’s Pick of the Week.

ESI Releases OpenFOAM v2106

This release extends OpenFOAM-v2012 features across many areas of the code.

ESI Group Participates in Fight against COVID-19 with Folding at Home

Folding@Home (FaH) is a distributed computing project for performing molecular dynamics simulations of protein dynamics.

Is Mixed Reality Worth a Try?

The visual technology holds much promise for design review and collaboration, but still faces limitations in hardware and processing power.

Can AR Enhance Design?

Though augmented reality brings benefits for collaboration and design review, hardware limitations make engineers wonder about its viability.

Simulation Silos

As access to compute resources expands, and new tools shift simulation to engineers and designers, the volume of simulation data has increased.

CONTACT Software Presents at the NAFEMS World Congress 2019 

The topic will address PLM- and microservice-based integration approach of model-based systems engineering.

ESI, AddUp Team on Distortion Simulation

New Distortion Simulation AddOn module will help mitigate distortion problems for metal additive manufacturing processes.

Use of CF-MESH+ and OpenFOAM Helps Solve Turbulent Flow Simulation Around DrivAer Vehicle

CF-MESH+ is a fully automated CFD meshing software solution that features capabilities for mesh generation in arbitrary complex geometries.

ESI Releases SimulationX 4.0

New release said to simplify and accelerate your workflow.

Editor’s Picks: January 10-16, 2019

One of the picks will be chosen as DE’s Editor’s Pick of the Week.

Virtual Printing Enables Next Phase of AM Adoption

Simulating 3D prints will make it easier to create high-quality end-use parts using additive manufacturing.