BANNOCKBURN, IL—Significant technical updates, greater ease-of-use and compatibility with other key assembly standards are among the many changes engineers will find in the newly released B revision of IPC/WHMA-A-620, Requirements and Acceptance for Cable and Wire Harness Assemblies.

WASHINGTON—Some 171,000 people were added to payrolls last month, as employers stepped up hiring in October.

ATHENS, GA—Caterpillar’s new assembly plant here could create twice as many indirect jobs as the 1,400 workers who will be on the company’s payroll, Gov. Nathan Deal predicted Tuesday.

MISHAWAKA, IN—Workers at AM General’s Humvee assembly plant here will return to work Nov. 26 after a temporary shut-down that began Oct. 1.

CHATTANOOGA, TN—Volkswagen’s assembly plant here has upped production to 610 sedans per day.

TRENTON, TN—About 250 jobs are expected to be created when MacLean Power Systems opens a new assembly plant here. The facility will make connectors, anchoring systems and other components for electrical transmission systems.

WHITBY, ON—The CAW has reached agreement on a tentative contract for workers at Lear Corp.’s assembly plant here. The strike had forced GM to limit production at its Oshawa Assembly Plant.

TUPELO, MS—One year after it opened, Toyota’s assembly plant here is producing some 600 cars daily, about where company officials hoped to be with its eighth and newest North American factory.

NORTH PORT, FL—Pump manufacturer Innomag Solutions is building a new assembly plant here.

MANCHESTER, NH—Contract manufacturer SemiGen Inc. has published a white paper, “The Advantages of Outsourcing Your RF/Microwave Assembly to an Onshore Contractor.”