BROMONT, CANADA – Cogiscan and Speedline Technologies have formed an OEM partnership under which Cogiscan will provide software to harvest and report traceability data from Speedline printers.

MINNEAPOLIS – IBM engineer Matt Kelly has been awarded the SMTA International 2013 Rich Freiberger Best of Conference for his presentation titled "Plasma Stencil Treatments: A Statistical Evaluation." The award was selected by attendees of the October conference.

GARDEN GROVE, CA -- OK International has named Christopher Larocca president, effective immediately. He supersedes Mark Cowell, who is retiring after 30 years with OK, the past eight as president.

NEENAH, WI -- Plexus appears to be weathering the impending loss of longtime top customer Juniper Networks. The EMS company's fourth-quarter operating margin was 5.1%, its highest mark since March 2008, and management expects margins to continue to top 5% in the coming quarters.