Colife Playbook
What is the Colife playbook?
The Colife Playbook aims to help industrial organizations and their partners identify, share, govern and utilize asset lifecycle data to create mutual business value, improve operational performance, and enable new data-driven services. It provides practical guidance for building collaborative asset management ecosystems by addressing business opportunities, governance models, data quality, interoperability, and technology choices, helping organizations transition from isolated asset management practices toward ecosystem-level value creation and sustainable data economy solutions.
- understand what is collaborative asset management and what that could offer,
- why traditional asset management is no longer enough (changing mindset), and
- provide guidance how to mobilise asset data for collaborative win-win production asset management.
- Start with the Overview to understand the purpose of the playbook and the main ideas behind Co-AM.
- Continue with Review the basics if you want a shared foundation in key concepts and terminology.
- Use Examine Co-AM in your context to reflect on opportunities, challenges, and readiness in your own organization.
- Then explore Business opportunities, Governance, and Examples for more detailed guidance and practical cases.
If you prefer a printable or shareable version, the Colife Playbook is also available as a PDF from the VTT publication page.
Explore the chapters
About the Colife project
Learn about the Colife project, its scope, and the purpose of this playbook.
Overview
Understand the purpose of the playbook and why collaborative asset management matters.
Review the basics
Build a common vocabulary around asset management, lifecycle data, and Co-AM.
Examine Co-AM in your context
Reflect on opportunities, challenges, and readiness factors in your own organization.
Business opportunities
Connect shared asset data to concrete value creation opportunities and ecosystem logic.
Governance and technologies
Explore governance, quality, interoperability, and technology design considerations.
Examples
Review the upgrade project and federated learning examples.
