---
key: review-asset-automation
title: Review asset automation
audience: staff
section: operational-assets
routes: ["/assets/lifecycle"]
permissions: ["assets.records.read"]
features: ["operations.assets", "lifecycle_automation.core"]
since: 0.0.1
updated: 0.0.1
status: published
summary: Use the Asset Automation hub to see which automated follow-ups are running on your vans, trailers and kits, pause or stop one, and review what is waiting for approval.
keywords: [automatic follow-up, readiness reminder, inspection reminder, pause automation, stop follow-ups, approvals, asset automation]
related: [review-work-automation, review-account-automation, check-which-assets-are-ready-to-dispatch]
---

In the sidebar, open **Automation**, then **By Area**, then **Equipment**. The page address is `/assets/lifecycle`. The page heading reads **Asset lifecycle hub**. It watches the automated follow-ups that run on operational assets, such as creating an internal task when an asset needs readiness attention, and lets you pause or stop one.

## Before you start

- Your role needs permission to view operational assets to open the page, and the lifecycle automation view permission to see anything on it. Without the second, the page shows **Lifecycle access is unavailable**.
- Pausing, resuming and stopping a sequence, reviewing approvals, seeing step details and creating automations each need their own permission. Buttons for actions you cannot take are greyed out or missing.

## Steps

1. Read the four tiles at the top: **Visible automations**, **Pending approvals**, **Open enrollments** (finished and stopped sequences are counted too) and **Next scheduled action**.
2. Scroll to **Actionable enrollments**. It shows the eight most recently updated assets inside an automation. Each row names the automation and shows its **Status**, **Subject**, **Current step** and **Next due** date. Upcoming steps are listed under **Scheduled actions needing operator visibility**.
3. To hold a sequence, press **Pause lifecycle sequence** on its row. Its scheduled steps wait until you press **Resume**. Resume only works while the automation itself is still active.
4. To end a sequence for good, press **Suppress future actions** and confirm in **Suppress future lifecycle actions?**. Nova cancels the remaining steps; the history stays.
5. Press **Why this happened** to see the details behind a scheduled step, **Open record** to jump to the asset, or **View automation** to open the automation.
6. To handle approvals, press **Work domain approvals** under **Quick actions** to open the queue for assets only. On a request press **Review and decide**, add a note if you like, then press **Approve candidate** or **Reject candidate**. **Review next approval** opens the next waiting request directly; **Global approval queue** opens every area of Nova.

## What you see

- **Active automations** lists up to six automations set up for assets, whatever their status, each with its **Journey**, **Scope** and when it was **Updated**, plus **Builder**, **Runtime** and **Insights** links.
- **Pending approvals** lists requests waiting on a decision, for roles that review approvals.
- **Interventions and holds** collects policy blocks, holds and failed steps that need attention, for roles that can see step details.
- **Recent asset lifecycle activity** shows what ran lately; **Asset lifecycle analytics** shows results, or **Lifecycle analytics are unavailable** when your role cannot see analytics.
- **Open asset registry** returns to the list of assets. **Open control plane** goes to the organization-wide automation pages.

## If something looks different

- A **Quick actions** card shows **View only**, **Approval review gated**, **Analytics gated** or **Content access gated**: your role lacks that permission.
- "Paused enrollments can only resume while the parent automation is active": open the automation with **View automation** and press **Activate automation** first.
- **Create asset automation** (or the shortcut under **Create or extend**) opens a builder drawer with the **Asset readiness** preset already applied (**Preset applied**) and a name filled in. Press **Create automation**: Nova saves it as a draft and opens its builder page, where you finish and turn it on. To stop or pause one asset, use the row actions above.
- **Active automations** is empty: none has been created for this branch or organization yet.
- The same hub exists for projects and tasks: see [[review-work-automation]].

[[route:/assets/lifecycle|Open Asset Automation]]