Set a realistic target state for food product quality control and a defensible route to it.
Designing Strategies to Control Food Product Quality at Every Stage
A structured, applied course in food product quality control — designed to be used the week you return.
📍 Abu Dhabi🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
A quality system for food product quality control that exists only for the auditor produces paperwork, not quality. Most defects in quality control are designed in long before they are detected. The professional literature on this area of quality and productivity management converges on a small set of controls that reliably work. The course sets out a working method for food product quality control that participants can apply the week they return. What blocks progress on the wider quality and productivity management agenda is usually unclear ownership rather than unclear intent. The programme uses small-group work so that each participant's treatment of quality control is examined, not just described. Participants come from operational and oversight roles, and both perspectives on food product quality control are used deliberately. The programme builds the judgement to know which parts of quality control to standardise and which to leave flexible. It closes by agreeing the smallest change to this part of quality and productivity management that would make a visible difference.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Reduce waste and non-value-adding steps in quality control.
Measure productivity in food product quality control without incentivising the wrong behaviour.
Apply structured problem solving to recurring defects in quality control.
Draw practical lessons from failures in food product quality control without assigning blame that suppresses reporting.
Estimate what quality control costs to run properly, and what is lost when it is not.
Map the process behind food product quality control as it is actually performed.
Who Should Attend
Managers in small and medium organisations who own food product quality control alongside other duties.
Process and industrial engineers redesigning quality control.
Certification and accreditation coordinators preparing evidence on food product quality control.
Inspection and testing staff verifying quality control.
Finance staff quantifying the cost of quality in food product quality control.
Compliance and governance staff whose remit includes quality control.
Course Modules
Food product quality control: cost of poor quality
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Solving the defect in food product quality control that keeps returning
- Measure current variation in food product quality control before attempting improvement.
- Write standard work for quality control with the people who perform it.
- Record what was learned when food product quality control did not go as planned.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether quality control is improving.
Session 2Sampling quality control on evidence rather than convention
- Identify the few causes responsible for most defects in food product quality control.
- Map the process behind quality control by walking it, not by describing it.
- Set out how exceptions to food product quality control are requested and approved.
- Build a control plan for quality control identifying what is checked, when and by whom.
Quality control: standard work and sustaining gains
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Benchmarking quality control without flattering yourself
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when food product quality control underperforms.
- Design the internal audit schedule covering quality control.
- Identify non-value-adding steps in food product quality control and remove them.
- Set escalation thresholds for quality control that work out of hours.
Session 2Getting other functions to support quality control
- Check that food product quality control still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of quality control current.
- Rehearse the briefing on food product quality control that would follow an incident.
- Apply structured root cause analysis to the top defect in quality control.
Quality control: benchmarking and continual improvement
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Comparing quality control with recognised practice
- Draft the minimum viable control plan for food product quality control.
- Reduce the variation in how quality control is carried out between teams.
- Benchmark food product quality control against a comparable operation and record the gap.
- Assemble certification evidence for quality control as work proceeds, not before the audit.
Session 2Control plans for food product quality control that catch problems early
- Identify single points of dependency in food product quality control and reduce them.
- Choose productivity measures for quality control that do not reward shortcuts.
- Name a single owner for each element of food product quality control.
- Train the team handling quality control in the problem-solving method being used.
Quality control: mapping the process as actually performed
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Building the method for quality control step by step
- Record what was tried on food product quality control and did not work, and why.
- Establish the boundary of quality control and record what sits outside it.
- Set the review cadence that sustains gains in food product quality control.
- Set sampling for quality control on statistical grounds, not on habit.
Session 2Sustaining the gain on quality control after the project ends
- Set out the decisions in food product quality control that require sign-off and by whom.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about quality control.
- Calculate the cost of poor quality attributable to food product quality control.
- Define acceptance criteria for quality control in advance.
Choose the package that suits you
Silver Package
At least 3 people
USD1,250
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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