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At the Trimble Dimensions 2026 conference and trade show held in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 9-11, Trimble announced the release of new AI capabilities to reduce construction risks and assist contractors with scheduling. It also introduced new Earthworks machine control hardware for simplified installation and improved performance and reliability.
Trimble Connect Platform AI Capabilities Aimed at De-Risking Construction
Trimble announced new Trimble Connect AI capabilities across the design, build, and operate lifecycle of construction that increase the breadth and functionality of the industry platform — from generative design using Trimble Assist, to customer designed agents in Trimble Agent Studio, to advanced AI governance and transparency.
Trimble Connect natively integrates precision field hardware, machine control telemetry, and jobsite data. Operating alongside enterprise software and back-office systems, it ensures information, context, and intelligence can move with the work. With more than 55 million cumulative users that have worked across more than 35 million projects, the company says, the platform enables one shared data layer across an open ecosystem of more than 400 integrations.
As construction faces shrinking labor capacity and tighter profit margins, risk increases on every project. That risk compounds in the gaps between tools, teams, and workflows where information gets siloed. Trimble’s platform-first approach closes these gaps by linking design, estimating, field and financial data while keeping specialized tools intact.
By grounding generative models in physical jobsite reality, the AI layer of the Trimble Connect platform delivers precision that general purpose tools cannot match, the company says. General-purpose AI starts with what it learned in training from the breadth of the internet and whatever tools and data it is given. In contrast, the AI layer of the Trimble Connect platform brings leading AI models together with what construction work requires: a project’s own data, field and machine telemetry, the tools to act on it inside Trimble applications, and the expertise of Trimble’s domain specialists. It expands what teams can take on, while project leaders keep the final decision.
Built natively into the Trimble Connect platform, Trimble Assist provides teams with a common, conversational AI interface to interact with AI agents and to help surface critical insights from across the Trimble ecosystem. Meanwhile, Trimble Agent Studio empowers customers to capture standard operating procedures and the institutional knowledge of their most experienced team members into customized AI agents and skills to help train and guide the emerging generation of workers. Together, they power the platform’s AI layer, enabling teams and developers to build, configure, and orchestrate, access and govern custom AI agents across their project workflows.
New AI-Accelerated Scheduling Solution
Trimble introduced Trimble Connect Scheduling, an integrated and AI-assisted solution for real-time visibility and optimization of construction scheduling and planning. Unveiled as a new capability of the Trimble Connect platform, the solution transforms how teams in the field and office can plan activities, identify scheduling risks, and respond to dynamic changes to meet the critical industry challenge of completing projects on time and within budget.
Construction project timelines change constantly due to crew availability, delayed deliveries, change orders, equipment issues, weather and other disruptions. Meanwhile, many office and field teams manage schedules with separate, disconnected tools ranging from spreadsheets, whiteboards and siloed niche applications to email and text message, and phone calls. This approach often creates version confusion, leaving schedules out of step with jobsite reality and limiting the ability to spot scheduling risks early enough to protect project milestones.
Trimble Connect Scheduling closes this gap by connecting a master schedule directly to live project data — from look-aheads and RFIs to weather forecasts, daily reports, submittals and other data. Powered by agentic AI, the solution continuously tracks shifting variables, evaluates risk and suggests actionable schedule adjustments for teams to review and approve, helping shift project management from reactive delay tracking to proactive delay prevention.
Natively built on top of the Trimble Connect platform, the new Trimble Connect Scheduling solution is powered by an agentic planning engine. It can assess information impacting the construction schedule from multiple sources in real time, including from the Trimble Connect common data environment and Trimble Connect Project Management.
Trimble’s AI planning engine can also cross-reference current data and historical operational data and patterns, enhancing its ability to predict threats to the schedule and proactively recommend the most effective remediation steps.
Next-Generation Trimble Earthworks Machine Control Hardware
Trimble announced the release of the MP1087 machine positioning solution, an “all-in-one” hardware solution that consolidates positioning and communication technologies into a single, compact unit that reduces installation complexity and provides improved machine control performance, even in difficult terrain.
The MP1087 combines what was previously multiple, separate hardware components into one ultra rugged and compact integrated unit. By combining components, the MP1087 shortens installation time while making the technology both more reliable and easier to support. New, modernized and integrated communications capabilities combine Wi-Fi, cellular, UHF radio, and network connectivity, improving performance and providing more flexible options for transmitting critical project data. Support for technologies like Wi-Fi HaLow demonstrates a commitment to open, standards-based communications that are easier and more cost-effective to deploy.
The MP1087 includes Trimble’s new, next-generation Maxwell 8 GNSS technology, engineered to deliver significantly increased performance, operational productivity and superior resilience with new anti-jamming and anti-spoofing capabilities.
