TRENTON, MI—Chrysler has begun work on a new engine assembly line at its assembly plant here—a move that could add more than 200 new jobs.

ASAN, South Korea—Hyundai will install almost 40,000 solar panels on the rooftop of its assembly plant here. The panels are expected to generate 11.5 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually.

EVERETT, WA—As battery woes kept the 787 grounded, Boeing workers picked up the pace, enabling the company to roll out this week the first Dreamliner built at the rate of seven aircraft per month.

BOSTON—Researchers from Harvard and MIT have created a printed inchworm robot that can fold and assemble itself.

WASHINGTON—President Obama has issued a pair of executive orders that aim to help U.S. manufacturers. The first will create three manufacturing institutes using $200 million from the budgets of five agencies. The second requires that government data be made available to the public—and to entrepreneurs—in manageable formats that could be more easily used by researchers and businesses to jump-start new products and services.

ROCKY HILL, CT—Henkel Corp. has unveiled the Interactive Loctite Medical Device Adhesive Selector Guide, an online resource providing direct links between 48 medical device adhesives and supporting technical documents such as materials safety data sheets and technical data sheets.

MIAMI, FL—U.S. manufacturers are targeting an aggressive 1.5 percent reduction in cost of goods sold for 2013 in an effort to drive margin growth, according to a new study from The Hackett Group Inc.

LAFAYETTE, IN—Subaru is spending $230 million to boost capacity at its assembly plant here by approximately 30 percent.

URBANDALE, IA—Auto parts supplier Denso has opened a new assembly plant here. The facility makes cooling modules for agricultural and construction equipment.

DETROIT—The automotive industry ranked third in the United States in patent filings in 2012. Only the telecommunications and computer industries generated more patents last year.