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With around 800 devices acting on more than 8km of beam lines, the CERN fixed target experimental areas have a dedicated beam line control system used by a few CERN experts and individuals from more than 140 groups of visiting users to perform experiments. In late 2021, an initiative was triggered to try to unify the accelerator and beam line controls, with the aim of containing maintenance costs and sharing common functionalities. Other software developments beyond pure Controls, have been taking place to facilitate the exploitation of the experimental areas. One such example is the extension of the Accelerator Schedule Management (ASM) software to capture user requests and plan subsequent beam time and associated set-up work. Another example is the use of the Accelerator Fault Tracking (AFT) system to accurately record downtimes of the beam lines and better understand both availability for users and the needs for / impact of consolidation activities. Lastly, data-driven generation of beam line schematics are aiming to help validate layout configurations and eventually evolve into intuitive control synoptics. This paper will give an overview of the developments, including challenges, solutions, and plans.
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