On Tuesday, $12$ March $2024,$ the second session of the South Africa$-$Ghana Bi$-$NationalCommission $($BNC$)$ and Business was held in Pretoria. The forum aimed at expanding tradeand investment that will create jobs in both countries.Suppose that you are an entrepreneur producing base metal in South Africa. Your companywould like to seize the opportunity of the African Continental Free Trade Area $($AfCFTA$)$agreement to increase business productivity. You are then tasked to:$1.$ Identify a product that can be made from base metal to export$\mathrm{.}2.$ Determine the manufacturing operations in the production of the product identified in$1\mathrm{.}3.$ Graphically present a production facility layout $($the use of MS Visio is recommendedbut not compulsory$)\mathrm{.}4.$ Determine the manufacturing metrics $($the fixed and variable costs, direct labour,material, overhead costs, cost of equipment usage and cost of manufactured the parts$)$using the formulas seen in Chapter $3.$