Technologies of controlling additive manufacturing systems

A method comprising:

• executing, by a process master controller (104), a program (204) configured to access a plurality of subroutines (206) and a plurality of libraries (208);
• invoking, by the process master controller, via the program, a first subroutine (210) of the subroutines, wherein the first subroutine provides the program with a set of axis data with a plurality of offset values in accordance with a workpiece coordinate system (WCS);
• invoking, by the process master controller, via the program, a second subroutine (212) of the subroutines, wherein the second subroutine provides the program with a set of geometric data about a geometric of an additive manufacturing tool for an additive manufacturing process and sets a tool offset point of the additive manufacturing tool at a distance above a substrate surface;
• receiving, by the process master controller, via the program, a workpiece identifier from an HMI (110);
• invoking, by the process master controller, via the program, a third subroutine (214) of the subroutines, wherein the third subroutine provides the program with a set of rapid plasma deposition part programming instructions and a set of rapid plasma deposition features from one of the libraries based on the workpiece identifier;
• invoking, by the process master controller, via the program, a fourth subroutine (216) of the subroutines, wherein the fourth subroutine verifies the set of rapid plasma deposition part programming instructions and the set of rapid plasma deposition features;
• invoking, by the process master controller, via the program, a fifth subroutine (218) of the subroutines, wherein the fifth subroutine enables the program to request an additive manufacturing system to deposit a layer on the substrate surface by the additive manufacturing tool via the additive manufacturing process;
• and
• depositing the layer on the substrate surface with the additive manufacturing tool, under the control of the process master controller, in response to the additive manufacturing system request.