Location Intelligence for Asset Tracking: The NGK Ceramics Case Study INTRODUCTION NGK Ceramics 1 is a global leader in the manufacturing of ceramic substrates used in catalytic converter applications for automotive, truck and off-road vehicles. The US manufacturing facility, located in Mooresville in North Carolina, covers more than 500k square feet and it is running 365 days a year, twenty-four hours a day. The facility was initially designed in 1988 to serve a limited geographical area in the US. However, with the business growing faster than expected and more areas being served by the same production plant, NGK faced a major challenge: how to grow the capacity of the North Carolina industrial plant, in order to keep up with the market demand. Efficiency was clearly the answer. As a fi

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