NEWARK, NY -- IEC Electronics today confirmed a workforce reduction of approximately 73 full time employees at its facility here.

BROMONT, CANADA — Cogiscan is partnering with Siemens PLM software to enable Industry 4.0 for electronics manufacturers.

HANOI – Panasonic has opened its Panasonic Solution & Innovation Center Vietnam here.

DUBLIN – The contract electronics manufacturing industry is expected to grow 6.2% compounded annually between 2015 and 2020, according to a new Research and Markets report.

PLEASANT PRAIRIE, WI -- EMS firm Target Corp. has filed for court-supervised protection and is up for sale.

MIAOLI, TAIWAN -- Sinbon Electronics has broken ground on a new plant here, where it plans to conduct R&D and assembly.

CHICAGO -- National Technical Systems last week celebrated the grand opening of its newly expanded test and inspection facility here.

TAIPEI -- DRAM contract prices are forecast to rise nearly 30% in the current quarter on stronger-than-expected notebook demand.

ALBUQUERQUE -- IEC Electronics has entered into a purchase and sale agreement with Store Capital Acquisitions for the sale its manufacturing facility here for an aggregate purchase price of $5.75 million.

BANGKOK -- Cal-Comp Electronics reported preliminary consolidated sales of 9.2 billion baht ($263.7 million) for September.

HERNDON, VA – iNEMI is conducting an industry survey to assess the measurement and inspection capability for fine circuit pattern substrates used in high bandwidth applications.

MAUI, HAWAII – Charlie Barnhart & Associates will host a webinar Oct. 27 to present third quarter EMS industry data, as well as a fourth quarter forecast.