  ALICE is the experiment at the CERN LHC devoted to study heavy-ion
collisions. An upgrade program of the ALICE detector is ongoing toward the LHC
Run 3 starting in 2022 together with the upgrade of the data acquisition system
and the detector control system (DCS). One of the main projects of the current
ALICE upgrade program is the addition of the muon forward tracker (MFT), a new
silicon pixel detector located at forward rapidity. In this paper, we describe
the DCS of the MFT detector which is entirely controlled via a finite state
machine in a hierarchical system.
