(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.

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