Home Shin Kai Director of Research, ARC Advisory Group Control Automation Lessons Learned from March 11 Disasters in Japan On July 22, four months after the unprecedented earthquake and tsunami struck the Pacific Coast side of eastern Japan, Japanese engineers from various process and other industries gathered in Tokyo to participate in a series of panel discussions entitled, “What Automation Should Learn From the 3/11 Disasters.” ARC Advisory Group and the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) jointly organized the panels , which were held as a session at ARC Advisory Group’s 2011 Japan Forum in Tokyo.