The key objective of the Court of Experts (COE) is to help address some of the challenges facing manufacturing and service professionals today:• How can we manage in an economic downturn?• How do we learn about improvement techniques?• How can we reduce our product and service cycle times?• How do we keep up-to-date with global operational/supply chain initiatives?• What organisations should we be benchmarking against?• Can we reduce our costs while actually increasing client satisfaction?• How can we be empowered in the philosophy and tools of Lean and other process improvement initiatives?The COE will afford you continuous access to up-to-date collaborative data and information on operational best practice as well as the opportunity to interact and network with fellow members to share experiences and ideas.