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Cornerstone Systems Inc. (CSI)

CSI is a privately held company with corporate offices in Crystal Lake, Illinois and a Customer Support Center in Plano, Texas. Marshall Handelsman founded the company in 1993, with the goal to provide heat treating, finishing, galvanizing and coating job shops with an easy to use software program that's affordable and would help them to manage their business activities more efficiently. Prior to forming CSI, Marshall spent over 20 years developing and installing software systems for these industries. This experience was to become the foundation upon which Visual Shop was built.

In the Spring of 1996, Visual Shop was introduced. At last, heat treaters, finishers, galvanizers and coaters had a windows based product that was developed for them. They no longer had to make do with a job shop-manufacturing program. Since that introduction in 1996, Visual Shop installations now number well over 300 and are growing each day.


Then and now: (Left to right) Our original 400sq ft office circa 1993, picture of our new server room, and a class at our last user conference.

Mission Statement

To provide the heat-treating, coating, galvanizing, painting, and finishing industries with an affordable and comprehensive software package. The software will;

  • Be affordable and scalable - The system can be able to run on 1 PC or a network of many PC's.
  • It can provide both the small and large customers with the features and benefits that they need.
  • Utilize mainstream "off the shelf" hardware and software.
  • Make use of modern technology to solve today's problems.
  • Be well supported and constantly improved upon.

For over 15 years we have followed our corporate mission statement. We will continue to do so.

RECENT NEWS
9/7/2008

07/17/08 - The newsletter has been mailed. It has also been posted on the website in the downloads section.

06/02/08 - Click here for information and registration for the Visual Shop 2008 User Conference!

04/22/08 - The newsletter has been mailed. It has also been posted on the website in the downloads section.

02/07/08 - Click to see the site of the 2008 user conference.

01/22/08 - The newsletter has been mailed. It has also been posted on the website in the downloads section.

12/07/07 - WE MOVED! Our Corporate Office moved to a new address. Click here.

10/30/07 - Visual Shop newsletter has been mailed and is on the website.


09/12/07 - SSI Furnace Link is up and running. Click Here for more Info.

09/02/07 - Visual Archive Docment Imaging for Visual Shop has been released. Click here for info.


07/30/07 - Visual Shop newsletter has been mailed and is on the website.

04/03/07 - Visual Shop newsletter has been mailed and is on the website.


1/25/07 - Visual Shop 2007 User Conference Information is now available.

1/25/07 - The newsletter has been mailed, emailed, and is on the website.

12/07/06 - CSI releases System Watch, A suite of remote monitoring tools deployed on your network that will identify and report minor problems before they grow to a major disaster.

10/10/06 - Customer Q4 newsletter has been sent out. It can also be viewed online in the Download Center.

10/03/06 - Kevin Pludeman Joins CSI as Systems Analyst. He will be working out of our new facility in Plano, Texas.