PIPS,Inc was founded in 1978; but its principals have a 30 year history of involvement in retail/wholesale distribution and industrial product coding, marking, scanning and standards development. The company's founder, George Wright has been involved with both U.P.C. and EAN since their inceptions in 1972 and 1977.

He was Consultant to Distribution Codes Institute (DCI), which administered the data base of non-retail manufacturer numbers which merged into the UPC/EAN number structure in 1984 and was the author of the original Industrial Coding Guidelines published by the Uniform Code Council (UCC) at that time.

PIPS senior managers have authored more than half-a-dozen product and packaging code and symbol specifications and guidelines for various industries. They continue to be active members (and in some cases Committee Chair) of industry bar code forums, including the Automatic Identification Manufacturers (AIM^USA), UCC Industrial & Commercial Advisory Committee (ICAC), the Bar Code Technical Committee of the Health Industry Business Communication Council (HIBCC), the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the ANSI-ISO JTC1/SC31 charged with establishing international standards for electronic data capture.