Tag: Trimble construction

Construction Equipment

Trimble speeds up GPS dozer grade control, intros wireless data sharing between compactors with GCS900, CCS900 systems

GPS grade control systems can only go as fast as the machine’s receivers can process the signals and hydraulic valves react. Trimble has improved this situation with it’s new GradeMax Plus technology for dozers. Used in the Trimble GCS900, GradeMax Plus employs an inertial measurement sensor to detect the rate of acceleration and changes in […]

April 20, 2015

Technology

Rugged new Trimble LL300S laser level stands up to jobsite abuse

Sensitive electronics don’t mix well with rough jobsite conditions, but the new generation Spectra Precision LL300S laser level was built to take just about anything you can throw at it. With its composite material housing, a metal sunshade and a glass lighthouse, the LL300S withstands drops up to three feet, tripod tipovers of five feet […]

December 11, 2014

Technology

PHOTOS: A tour of Trimble’s connected jobsite: Network of dozers, workers and the office removes chaos from construction

[imagebrowser id=142] When Trimble president and CEO Steve Berglund opened the company’s 2014 Dimensions user conference Monday, he mentioned how, from a technology standpoint, not much has changed for the company over the last several years. On a slide he showed three categories the company offers solutions for: 1) Modeling, analytics and decisions support; 2) […]

November 6, 2014

Business

Trimble adds weighing capabilities to Connected Site with acquisition of Actronic Technologies

Trimble’s Connected Construction Site will receive a bit of an upgrade thanks to the company’s recent acquisition of Actronic Technologies. Actronic produces weighing technology and payload information systems for construction, aggregate, mining and waste markets. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the acquisition includes Actronic’s Loadrite system, which will add weighing capabilities to […]

June 17, 2013