TAIPEI -- Foxconn will hire a reported 5,000 specialists here this year to design, build and program factory robots, company officials said.

SAN DIEGO – IPC Apex Expo 2013 brought 4,568 conference and exhibit attendees from 42 countries, compared to 4,915 in 2012.

BANNOCKBURN, IL – Fu Chunyan of Beijing Railway Signal Co. won first place in the first IPC World Championship hand soldering competition. 

MINNEAPOLIS -- Nortech Systems today reported quarterly net income rose 17.5% year-over-year to $276,000, its highest mark in more than two years.