This paper presents an approach to applying the digital thread concept by using and explaining it with an example from the industry. The production of large-scale components are primarily customised products and produced in small quantities. In addition, these products have a high proportion of manual manufacturing and measurement due to their complex requirements and unique specifications. With the Industry 5.0 that aims to improve the sustainability, resilience and human-centricity of production, we see here a huge potential towards the manual measurement during the fabrication of a large-scale component. Therefore, it requires the accessibility, collection and processing of data, achievable through, e.g., the digital thread concept, which traces the complete product’s lifecycle from development to end-of-life - yet the implementation proves challenging. Our goal is to research and understand, later applied in a use case, to digitalise and automate parts of the manual measurement to ease the manual labour. We want to improve quality checks as part of a product’s Beginning of Life by comparing CAD models with 3D scans (point clouds) of manufactured models. It involves visualising components to identify missing or misplaced parts, which can significantly improve and ease the manual inspections. For this purpose, we have developed a software application that captures, consolidates, and processes this data/information.