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8.5.5
Ongoing Continuation of Leading Designer 4's Work
The design and implementation work of Leading Designer 4 are currently being
continued, primarily by Leading Designer 5/Commissioning Engineer 1 and IASE
(Lewoc et al.
2012
). Leading Designer 5 gained her professional experience in the
International Nuclear Research Institute in Dubna and at IASE, on the Badel project.
Subsequently, a team of IASE designers and commissioning engineers transferred
the solution for the operator level of Badel into the stand-alone system MASTER-
ProSter. ProSter is a very large-scale system compared to the typical computer
automation systems applied in other industries. For instance, it may be processing
about 60,000 digital signals and several thousand analogue signals over a period of
a minute. A typical ProSter automation cabinet is depicted in Fig.
8.19
, and some
graphical displays are shown in Figs.
8.20
,
8.21
,
8.22
and
8.23
.
In the Badel project, Leading Designer 5 designed and developed the operator
level communication subsystem and further developed this design specifically for
ProSter. She was also an informal leading designer of the overall ProSter system. In
addition, she has designed and implemented more than 50 software interfaces for
power systems for other manufacturers, mainly ABB (Asea Brown Boveri) and
Procom (a Polish power industry automation provider based primarily on engineers
and programmers educated on the Badel project).
The ProSter system was very successful in the power industry in Poland. It won
the contracts for implementation in more than 200 power plants and combined heat-
and-power plants against very strong competition from some of the world's largest
corporations providing high technology for the power industry. According to infor-
mation supplied to the authors by the Badel project manager, Dr. Tomczyk, the
ProSter installations have had significant benefits for Poland, valued to date at more
than one billion euros.
In theory, the Polish regulations on implementation bonuses allowed the design
and implementation teams comprising a few dozen people to share a bonus of about
100 million euros for their work. In practice, they received nothing. It is also worry-
ing that this large sum of money seems to have disappeared without trace and meet-
ings between leading designers and project managers were not able to elucidate
what happened to it.
From the perspective of ethics, there are both individual and systematic factors.
Individuals should behave ethically regardless of the temptations and whether or not
other people behave ethically. However, collective support is important. Ethics is not
just a matter for individuals but for society as a whole. It is much easier to behave ethi-
cally in a society which encourages ethical behaviour and does not present tempta-
tions to unethical behaviour. Education is also important. When educating the younger
generation of designers, including Leading Designer 5, Leading Design 4 focused on
technical competence and contributing to society. He was right not to encourage them
to engage in battles for large bonuses, which are anyway ethically questionable and
could probably have been better used to support other design projects to benefit the
country and people of Poland or improve their salaries and conditions of work.
However, he should probably have educated them to demand better salaries and con-
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