ADAC Laboratories a Silicon Valley-based (Milpitas, California) maker of high-technology healthcare products won the Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award in 1996: If a system breaks down, ADAC technicians will have it back in operation within an average of 17 hours (in 1996) after receiving a customer’s call, or less than a third of the time it took in 1990....

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