The Kansas City Area Development Council announced the Kansas City region is gaining another global automotive parts supplier. Janesville Acoustics, a Jason Incorporated Company, will invest $13.4 million in a new 155,000-square-foot automotive manufacturing facility in Warrensburg, Mo., to supply GM’s Fairfax Assembly Plant, creating 164 new, full time jobs.

InnovMetric Software Inc. announced it launched PolyWorks Japan KK. This new subsidiary is located in the Minato ward, in Tokyo, Japan.

Twenty-four ASQ members have completed the rigorous process and have been named ASQ Fellows for contributing to the advancement of quality. The new Fellows will be recognized at ASQ’s World Conference on Quality and Improvement in May 2014.

JETCAM International and Bricsys announced a technical and commercial partnership that will mutually benefit their respective customer bases.

Karen Spencer has 30 years of experience in quality management in aerospace, aviation, medical, automotive and manufacturing. She recently joined Clinkenbeard as its new full-time Quality Manager.

Schneider Downs, one of the 60 largest certified public accounting and business advisory firms in the United States, recently published the third annual analysis of its Manufacturers’ Economic Survey.

November U.S. cutting tool consumption totaled $156 million, according to the U.S. Cutting Tool Institute and AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology.

Asylum Research, an Oxford Instruments company, in conjunction with Georg-August Universität Göttingen, announces the 4nd Euro AFM Forum to be held March 17-19, 2014.

 Microchip Technology Inc. announced the SSC7102—a low-power, flexible and turnkey sensor hub that makes implementing sensor fusion easy and provides an extremely large selection of supported sensors.