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Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing. Jörg Marchthaler

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Managing Director and owner of Value Coaching Marchthaler.
Chair of the VDI Value Management and Value Analysis Division in Germany.

He advises companies across industries on development projects, cost reduction projects, and product and process optimisation.

From 2005 to 2010 he worked as a research associate and lecturer at the Institute of Engineering Design at the University of Siegen. His research focused on methodical product development. In his doctorate he further developed the methods of Value Management and validated them in consulting and industrial projects.

He has worked as a consultant since 2008.

Since 2006, within the VDI Society for Product and Process Design, he has worked on the further development and drafting of guidelines and standards for Value Analysis / Value Management in the German-speaking countries. He has chaired the division since 2019. Since 2008 he has been involved in shaping the content of VDI conferences and is regularly a member of the programme committee of the annual "Wertanalyse Praxis" (Value Analysis in Practice) conference. He also works as a trainer in Value Analysis / Value Management for the VDI Wissensforum.

He was editor and co-author of the standard reference work "Wertanalyse - das Tool im Value Management" (Value Analysis – the tool in Value Management), published in 2011.

At international level, he has worked as an expert for the German Institute for Standardization (DIN) and the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) on the European standardisation of Value Analysis and Value Management.

Dr Marchthaler is a VDI/Value for Europe-certified Trainer in Value Management (TVM) and also holds the European qualification Professional in Value Management (PVM).

He also teaches product development as a lecturer at the University of Siegen.

Read More About Value Analysis by Dr.-Ing. Jörg Marchthaler

Book cover: Wertanalyse, Value Management, Wertorientierte Unternehmensführung – Methoden und Entwicklungen
Doctoral Thesis

Wertanalyse, Value Management, Wertorientierte Unternehmensführung - Methoden und Entwicklungen (Value Analysis, Value Management, Value-Oriented Corporate Management – Methods and Developments)

Jörg Marchthaler’s doctoral thesis is the first to examine Value Analysis, Value Management and value-oriented corporate management in an integrated way.

  • International comparison of the development of Value Analysis based on existing standards
  • Core elements of the methodology and, for the first time in a coherent form, the other methods in Value Management
  • Value Management as an instrument of value-oriented corporate management
  • Focus on Function Analysis, creativity and teamwork, with an overview of creativity techniques
Book cover: Wertanalyse – das Tool im Value Management
VDI Standard Reference Work

Wertanalyse - das Tool im Value Management (Value Analysis – the Tool in Value Management)

Ed. VDI-Gesellschaft Produkt- und Prozessgestaltung, Springer 2011, 6th fully revised and expanded edition

The VDI standard reference work describes Value Analysis as a systematic method for product development and process optimisation. Jörg Marchthaler contributed as editor and co-author and wrote the following chapters:

  • Fundamentals: Value Management and Value Analysis
  • Function Potential Analysis and Function Cost Analysis
  • Teamwork
  • Value-oriented corporate management: Value Management applied at management level
  • TRIZ
Book cover: Best Practices im Value Management
Book Chapter

Best Practices im Value Management - Wie Sie durch Einkauf und Technik einen nachhaltigen Wertbeitrag leisten können (Best Practices in Value Management – How Procurement and Engineering Can Make a Sustainable Contribution to Value)

Ed. Tanja Lingohr and Martin Kruschel, Gabler Verlag 2011

Jörg Marchthaler was invited to write an article on the diversity of terminology and the implementation of Value Management in organisations and processes. He co-authored it with Rainer Lohe, Stephanie Merten and Tobias Wigger:

Kostenanalyse, Wertanalyse, Value Management und Wertorientierte Unternehmensführung. Ein Beitrag zur Begriffsklärung (Cost Analysis, Value Analysis, Value Management and Value-Oriented Corporate Management: A Contribution to Clarifying the Terms)

  • Origins of Value Analysis with L. D. Miles after the Second World War
  • Further development into Value Management
  • Why German and English terms are often understood differently in companies

You can find further publications in specialist journals in Jörg Marchthaler’s profile.

Publications:

2026

  • MARCHTHALER, J.: KI-Transformation im Unternehmen – Wie durch Wertanalyse die Einführung von KI nachhaltig gelingt. In: VDI-Gesellschaft Systementwicklung und Projektgestaltung (ed.): VDI-Tagung Wertanalyse 2026. Düsseldorf. Download paper as PDF (0.5 MB)

2025

2024

  • MARCHTHALER, J.; MEINDL, S.: Wertanalyse als Schlüssel zur Wettbewerbsfähigkeit: Ein Expertenblick. Podcast „Technik aufs Ohr – Der Podcast für Ingenieur*innen und Technikfans“, episode 186 (host: M. Dadomo). Düsseldorf : VDI Verein Deutscher Ingenieure e.V., 10 October 2024 (approx. 47 min). Listen to the podcast on the VDI website

2023

  • SEITZ, W.; MARCHTHALER, J.: Wertanalytische Überarbeitung eines gravimetrischen Misch- und Messsystems. In: VDI-Gesellschaft Systementwicklung und Projektgestaltung (ed.): Wertanalyse Praxis 2023. Düsseldorf. Download paper as PDF (2.7 MB)

2022

  • LOTT, O.; MARCHTHALER, J.: Innovative, wertanalytische Weiterentwicklung eines „Maschinenraums“ für Kühl- und Gefriergeräte der neuen Generation. In: VDI-Gesellschaft Systementwicklung und Projektgestaltung (ed.): Wertanalyse Praxis 2022. Düsseldorf. Download paper as PDF (0.8 MB)

2019

2016

2012

  • MARCHTHALER, J. ; GROSSMANN, C.: Wertanalyse noch nicht ausgereizt - Auch kleinere Unternehmen können dieses Werkzeug nutzen. In: DowJones: Einkäufer am Markt. No. 7, Frankfurt, 2012. Download article as PDF (0.3 MB)

2011

2010

  • LOHE, R. ; MARCHTHALER, J. ; MERTEN, St. ; WIGGER, T.: Kostenanalyse, Wertanalyse, Value Management und Wertorientierte Unternehmensführung. In: LINGOHR, T. ; KRUSCHEL, M. (eds.): Best Practices im Value Management. Wiesbaden : Gabler, 2010. Read the paper online | Read at the publisher (preview only)

2009

  • MARCHTHALER, J. ; MONITOR, P.: Value Management auf Führungsebene - Cashflow-Probleme nachhaltig lösen. In: VDI-Gesellschaft Systementwicklung und Projektgestaltung (ed.): Wertanalyse Praxis. Düsseldorf : VDI Verlag, 2009. Download paper as PDF (0.4 MB)
  • MARCHTHALER, J. ; WIGGER, T.: Funktionen-Potenzial-Analyse. In: LOHR, W. ; MARCHTHALER, J. ; SCHERER, T. ; WIGGER, T. (eds.): Spektren der Produktentwicklung.. Siegen : WIS Verlag, 2009. Download paper as PDF (7.3 MB)
  • WIGGER, T. ; MARCHTHALER, J. ; LOHE, R.: Durch die Integration von Wertanalyse und TRIZ die Effizienz technischer Problemlösungen steigern. In: VDI-Gesellschaft Systementwicklung und Projektgestaltung (ed.): Wertanalyse Praxis 2009. Düsseldorf : VDI Verlag, 2009. Download paper as PDF (3.7 MB)

2008

  • MARCHTHALER, J. ; WIGGER, T. ; LOHE, R: Innovatives Potenzial von Wertanalyse und Value Management. In: Maschinenbau - MB Revue 2008 Jahreshauptausgabe des Maschinenbau. Zürich : Olympia Verlag, 2008. Download paper as PDF (3.9 MB)
  • MARCHTHALER, J. ; LOHE, R. ; SCHWENK, C.: Wertanalyse und Value Management. In: VDI-Gesellschaft Systementwicklung und Projektgestaltung (ed.): Wertanalyse Praxis 2008. Düsseldorf: VDI Verlag, 2008. Download paper as PDF (0.1 MB)
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