New Dairy Product Development

Learn how to speak the language of product development to drive innovation and create new dairy products that connect with consumers to bolster the bottom line.

“Companies are desperate for product talent and as a result they hire diverse talents from non-tech and varied backgrounds to meet the record demand”.

Do you have a novel dairy product idea but unsure of how to bring it to market? Are you winning with new products, and would you like to expand your knowledge of the modern tools and methods that will help you accelerate your dairy development process from idea to lunch – leading to product success? If your goal is to advance your career and acquire the knowledge, mindset and skills required to create sustainable products that will solve real problems of real people over the decades, this high-impact, 5-day course is for you. New dairy product development is the process of creating, processing, and commercialising a new dairy product. It is also the process of reformulating or repackaging an existing dairy product. Unfortunately, “only one product concept out of seven becomes a new product winner; and one-third of all new product lunches fail”. The aim of this course, therefore, is to guide participants through the critical success factors, and the best practices for creating dairy products that connect with the consumers to beat the odds in new dairy product development.

This course will introduce you to the intricacies of new product development in today’s dairy world and how to build in the voice of the customer to increase the chances of product success. It is an industry-backed training solution to empower the attendees with new skills and knowledge on how to navigate the NPD process from the beginning stage of ideation to formulation, from product testing to sensory evaluation, down to market launching. You need to attend the 5 days to complete the course.

The course is suitable for anyone who wants to raise his product intelligence in the dairy/food industry, whether involved in manufacturing, providing regulatory/quality assurance, fulfilling market needs, designing/developing products, or even starting up a new dairy/food business as an entrepreneur.

Designed to sharpen your product thinking, the IODY’s New Dairy Product Development course will equip you with the tools/techniques to succeed in the ever-changing market and provide you with a comprehensive knowledge of the following topics:

• The characteristics of milk and milk products.
• Physico-chemical properties of dairy products.
• Moisture sorption isotherms and dairy products stability
• Dairy legislation relevant to NPD and meeting all other requirements.
• NPD in today’s dairy world.
• An overview of customer-centric approach to NPD.
• How to identify a clear problem that your product can solve and draft the brief.
• Experimentation with formulations, inclusions, or the process in the pilot plant.
• Product testing and iterative experimentation to build in the voice of the stakeholders.
• Factors that limit the shelf life of dairy products and how to initiate trials and maximise it.
• Good practice in the validation and setting of dairy products shelf life during NPD.
• Sensory design/evaluation for taste, texture, and functionality in NPD.
• New dairy product applications assessment.
• Scaling up (Kitchen to pilot to production)
• An overview of possible packaging solutions.
• Food safety considerations at key dairy product development steps.

Building in scalability and sustainability during new dairy product development.

• Learn the product language for the dairy industry from experts who have been there and done it to expand your knowledge and stay ahead of the game.
• Explore the new product development process in the dairy industry to challenge your thinking, broaden your perspectives, and guarantee a significant improvement of new product launch.
• Learn how dairy formulation, composition, structure, and assembly impact on product safety/shelf life, and how to instigate trials.
• Develop arguments with new skills and knowledge, ready to innovate your pipeline of dairy products to inspire customer loyalty now and in the future.
• Learn how to expand your sphere of influence and become a member of the Institute of Dairy to connect with peers.
• When you complete the course, you will be able to apply enhanced technical skills and work with pride to invent the future. The milk industry is booming, and the right jobs are waiting.

There is no prerequisite for this course.

 Course Admissions Requirements

There are no admission requirements for this course.  If there are more applications for this course than places available, applicants will be ranked by date of application.

Earn a Certificate of Completion from The Institute of Dairy

100% attendance qualifies you for a certificate of completion from The Institute of Dairy to recognise your participation.

Institute of Dairy reserves the right to cancel an upcoming training without further notice. All registrations will be refunded in full.
Cancellations will be refunded in full up to 14 days from date of registration. After this, no refunds will be given. However, a voucher, valid for one year, that is worth the equivalent of the original training may be issued to the participant in the extreme case that he can no longer participate in the training that he had initially registered for due to unforeseen circumstances.