COPICS is an acronym that can contain many meanings which are listed below.
COPICS – Communications Oriented Production Information and Control System
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COPICS was indeed the Comminications Oriented Production Information and Control System. It originated as a concept by IBM in the 1960s as a systematic way to organize manufacturing planning. The concept first appeared in a series of books on various aspects of manufacturing planning known as the ‘black books’ because of the covers. The concepts were later turned into a series of software products (COPICS was announced in 1979 and replaced with COPICS II in 1981)that allowed manufacturers to purchase a prewritten set of programs to handle order entry, bills of material, inventory control, material requirements planning, purchasing, etc. COPICS used a hierarchical data base known as DL/1, which was later replaced with IBM’s DB2 product. IBM sold the rights to COPICS in the 1990s.