For many material companies, material design, manufacturing, and characterization are usually completed in different departments, and then the life-cycle data of materials are separately located. Also, material characterization data is presented in data files with their specific format of characterization instruments. The data of material properties and manufacturing, which is discretely located, is not appropriate for using a novel data-driven approach for material research and development. This initiates a need for a data infrastructure that can help to integrate these separately located material data to formulate a database system. However, it is challenging to develop such a data infrastructure due to diverse material characterization instruments and manufacturing processes. To address this need, we develop a general data infrastructure that can help to build a specific material characterization and manufacturing database by following the CSTM material genome engineering data principle and employing the zero-code development idea. In this study, we illustrate the design and development of the data infrastructure and use it to build a characterization and manufacturing database for liquid metal. It is demonstrated that the idea and data infrastructure for building a specific material characterization and manufacturing database are appropriate and useful.