Abstract:
Factories in the 21st century have to be more flexible and adaptable taking production processes beyond the obtainable. Field survey has shown that some Southwestern factories in Nigeria stopped production processes at the semi-finished stage and exported it only for some European and American industries to further exploit on our hard built economy. If machineries, human resources, raw materials and energies are combined in an optimum quantity, together with a good knowledge of production and operations management ethics, production processes would be stretched further from primary to secondary processes with little additional cost in accommodating some specific secondary processing equipments to translate the obtainable semi finished into finished products on a centralised site in a standard quality controlled conditions. The proposed cocoa processing factory design can be complex and demanding but it is also challenging and rewarding to embark upon and should connote a functional, aesthetically pleasing environment (in the interiors and exteriors) seen beyond architecture as hovering space but rationalistic enough to stand as a visual concept in an avant-garde form.
