Currently digital transformation has a huge impact on human lives. Digital transformation does not just mean a transformation of a (non-) physical element to a digitally identifiable element. It focuses on the utilization of digital technology for transforming (improving) procedures or routines of business and operation. The manufacturing industry has been adopting the most recent digital technology, and lots of digital data are being created. To utilize the stored data, data analysis is essential. Because the manufacturing data is created in a different format at every manufacturing step, the integration of the data is always the bottleneck of the data analysis. Querying of the right data at the proper time is fundamental for high-level data analysis. The digital thread is introduced to provide the inter-reference of digital data based on a context. This paper proposes a digital thread framework for the machining process. The context of the proposed framework consists of the questions of how the product will be machined, how it is (was) being produced, and how it was made. A prototype software was developed to verify the proposed framework by implementing the creating, storing, and querying modules for simulation, monitoring, and inspection data.
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