As sensory teams increasingly move from individual projects answering single objectives to repeated and ongoing research programmes that fill data lakes, support predictive modelling and long-term product tracking, confidence in panel consistency over time becomes critical.

Traditional panel metrics such as discrimination, consensus and repeatability provide valuable measures of panel performance within a project, but they don't always reveal whether a panel remains stable across months or years of testing. Even subtle panel drift can impact the reliability of long-term datasets and the conclusions drawn from them. To help address this challenge, SAM has developed a new Panel Performance Indicator that provides a concise view of panel quality and stability across projects, enabling researchers to monitor ongoing performance with greater confidence.

Join our upcoming webinar to discover how this new approach can help identify panel drift earlier, strengthen confidence in long-term sensory data, and support more robust business decisions.

Title: Beyond panel performance | Rethinking long term stability in trained sensory panels
Date: 1st October 2026
Time: 15:00 BST | 16:00 CET | 10:00 EDT
Register your place!