Desktop Engineering is carrying an article titled "UGS Brings Enterprise-Level PLM to Mid-Sized Manufacturers" which is exactly about that. UGS has been pretty busy developing it's PLM software. So has the competition. So I suspect we'll be hearing news of similar moves from them in the coming weeks. This is a trend in software that is probably worth keeping an eye on.
On a related note, the news last night aired a segment discussing retail chain Best Buy's new employee work program called ROWE (Results-Oriented Work Environment). If you're unfamiliar with it here's a link to a Time article about it (note: link to article may not allow viewing; I can't now go back to it but hopefully everyone else can see it at least once). On the news segment they reported that the program is not only still working, but that Best Buy still plans to expand it to retail. I don't know if that will work, but I do know this: if Best Buy is considering this kind of expansion, it can't be a stretch for manufacturers to be thinking R&D employees could be working at home and using PLM software to link them into the corporate grid.
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