(API: Rockville, MD) -- Automated Precision Inc.’s (API) volumetric error compensation (VEC) is an innovative process that establishes a new methodology in volumetric error compensation for large machine tools. This innovative, multi-award-winning technology was just included in the 48th Annual R&D 100 Awards, which salute the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace in the past year.

The R&D 100 Awards, sponsored by R&D Magazine, have long been a benchmark of excellence for industry sectors as diverse as telecommunications, high-energy physics, software, manufacturing, and biotechnology. “The R&D 100 Awards have always represented some of the most innovative concepts to reach the marketplace in the past year. 2010 is no exception, and we had a particularly strong field of entries for the judges to evaluate,” says Rita Peters, editorial director of R&D Magazine.

R&D Magazine recognized VEC, because it is a game-changing technology for anyone with large and complex machine tools. “Older technology considers each machine axis separately, stacking errors from three or more individual coordinate systems. This limits the mapping of errors to three linear axes and 21 error parameters which has proven very challenging for large five- and six-axis machine tools,” says Dave Maxham, global marketing director at API.

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