Operational Excellence · Lean · Six Sigma · Kaizen · TPM
AXIS Management Consultation finds the hidden waste, eliminates the root causes, and builds a continuous improvement culture that delivers measurable cost savings — and keeps delivering long after our engagement ends. Backed by 22+ years of hands-on factory floor leadership at Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Al-Mansour, and Philip Morris International.
Years on the Factory Floor
Cost Savings — Verified
Typical CI Return on Investment
Average Defect Rate Reduction
Issam Abufreiha is a certified Lean Six Sigma practitioner with over two decades of hands-on operational leadership across some of the world's most demanding FMCG and industrial environments. His career spans senior roles at Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Al-Mansour, and Philip Morris International — implementing CI programs that have delivered over 1 million JOD in verified cost savings.
He holds professional certifications in Lean Six Sigma, TPM, Kaizen, and Industrial Engineering — and has trained and mentored hundreds of professionals across the Middle East, Africa, and Europe.
Hands-on production and quality leadership across high-volume FMCG bottling operations.
Delivered >1M JOD in verified cost savings through the NCE continuous improvement framework — deploying Lean and TPM across bottling operations.
Managed the $12M greenfield launch of a carbonated soft drinks factory — equipment selection, line design, installation, and commissioning.
Operational transformation and Lean deployment at one of the world's largest consumer goods companies.
Founded AXIS to bring enterprise-grade CI programs to organizations across Jordan, the Middle East, and beyond.
They hide inside daily routines — in the two minutes a machine idles waiting for a changeover that should take four. In the batch reworked because a control chart was never monitored. In the talented engineer who never gets asked for their improvement ideas. In the line running at 62% OEE when 85% is achievable with the right system. The 8 Wastes of Lean make the invisible visible. When you can see where value is being destroyed, you can finally stop it.
Rework and scrap cost money twice — once to produce it wrong, and once to fix or discard it. Defects also destroy customer trust and mask deeper process instability.
Producing more than demand requires ties up capital in inventory, consumes materials, and creates a false sense of productivity that hides real performance gaps.
Idle people and machines generate zero value while draining your payroll and available capacity. Every minute of waiting is a minute of potential output lost forever.
The people closest to the problem know more about fixing it than anyone in a head office. Not asking them is your most expensive strategic mistake.
Every movement of material that does not add value is waste — it adds time, cost, and risk of damage or error without getting you closer to the customer.
Excess raw materials, WIP, and finished goods are not assets — they are problems in disguise, locking up cash and hiding process instability behind a buffer.
Unnecessary physical movement of people is a sign of poor workplace design. It erodes energy, creates ergonomic risk, and adds time without adding value.
Doing more than the customer needs is waste — regardless of how professional it looks. If the customer would not pay for it, you should not be doing it.
Every engagement follows the DMAIC framework. Not because it is fashionable — because it works, and because it creates a documented, defensible, measurable improvement path that your leadership can track from week one.
Agree on what success looks like — in hard numbers. Project scope, target KPIs, business case, and stakeholder alignment before a single improvement is touched.
Establish your true performance baseline through data collection, OEE measurement, loss accounting, and value stream analysis. You cannot improve what you have not measured.
Root cause analysis, fishbone diagrams, Value Stream Mapping, and Pareto analysis reveal the structural causes of underperformance — not just its symptoms.
Solutions are designed, prototyped on the factory floor, and validated before full rollout. Kaizen events, standard work pilots, and 5S deliver visible wins quickly.
Results are locked in through SOPs, control plans, KPI dashboards, and a governance cadence that makes CI part of how the business runs — not a project with an end date.
Supporting Methodologies
Systematic elimination of waste across all production and service processes — reducing lead time, cost, and complexity while maximizing value delivery.
Data-driven methodology to reduce variation and defects to near-zero levels — using statistical tools and structured DMAIC problem-solving.
Rapid improvement events and continuous incremental improvement culture — engaging all levels of the organization in ongoing operational gains.
Maximizing equipment effectiveness through proactive and preventive maintenance, eliminating breakdowns, defects, and minor stoppages.
Visual mapping of all process steps, information flows, and waste sources — identifying where value is created and where time and resources are lost.
Structured workplace organization methodology — Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain — creating a foundation for all other CI initiatives.
These figures are drawn from documented project outcomes across real factory engagements — not industry benchmarks or theoretical models.
Typical return on CI investment across FMCG, beverages, water, and tobacco engagements.
OEE improvement achievable through structured TPM and Lean implementation.
Cost savings delivered at Nestlé Waters Jordan through the NCE continuous improvement framework.
Typical payback period from engagement start to full cost recovery.
Average defect rate reduction through Six Sigma DMAIC programmes.
Illustrative — based on documented project outcomes.
All figures: Issam Abufreiha — documented project outcomes, Nestlé Waters Jordan & Philip Morris International
*Timeline is indicative and adapted to facility complexity during Discovery.
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Three pillars that ensure every improvement we deliver becomes permanent, self-sustaining, and scalable across the organization.
Lock in gains through documented standard work, visual controls, and process ownership. Improvements become the new baseline — not a temporary fix.
Build internal capability and a continuous improvement culture so the organization maintains and builds on results independently, long after our engagement ends.
Expand proven improvements across departments, sites, and business units — multiplying impact through structured horizontal deployment.
Structured, practical training programs tailored to your team's role and the depth of capability you want to build. Available in-person, remotely, or blended format.
Audience: All staff
Audience: Line leaders & engineers
Audience: CI champions
Audience: Managers & directors
On-Site Workshop
Hands-on, floor-based learning in your facility — real problems, real data, immediate application.
Train-The-Trainer
Build permanent internal training capability — your people deliver training long after we leave.
Coaching on the Floor
Real-time problem solving alongside your team — learning by doing on live production challenges.
Virtual / Blended
Flexible digital delivery for remote leadership, multi-site rollouts, or refresher programmes.
Not textbook theory. Hands-on factory floor leadership at Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Al-Mansour, and Philip Morris International. Every recommendation is grounded in lived operational experience.
KPI targets agreed before engagement begins. We do not close a programme until the results are documented, the system is self-sustaining, and your team can maintain it independently.
We work alongside your people — not from a boardroom or slide deck. We run Kaizen events, walk the production line, audit the processes, and coach in real time.
From VSM and Kaizen events to Six Sigma DMAIC, TPM, OEE, standard work, and culture transformation. One partner — complete capability — no gaps.
FMCG, beverages, bottled water, tobacco, soft drinks, and greenfield factory builds. If you face a manufacturing challenge, we have almost certainly solved a version of it — with documented evidence.
Active in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Egypt, Bulgaria, Turkey, Senegal, South Africa, and UAE. Amman HQ + London regional office — local insight with international scalability.
Start with a free 1-hour discovery session — no forms, no gatekeepers, no obligation. Direct access to Issam. We identify your highest-value opportunity and present a clear, costed path forward.
Reach out by email or phone. You speak directly to the consultant, not a sales team.
We visit (or connect virtually) and identify your top 3 waste and performance opportunities at no cost.
Bespoke CI roadmap with scope, methodology, and ROI projections. Delivered within 5 working days.
Structured launch event that aligns your leadership team, sets KPI targets, and puts the programme in motion.
Lead Consultant & Founder, AXIS Management Consultation
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