Conference 2024

“Two Conferences – One Event: ASE Summit meets DSM Conference, Advanced Systems Engineering focusing on Complexity Management”

24 to 26 September 2024 | Stuttgart

This year the 26th International Dependency and Structure Modelling Conference (DSM 2024) will be partnered with the Fraunhofer Advanced System Engineering Summit (ASE) giving the opportunity to exchange across communities.

We cordially invite you to the joined conferences, presenting valuable impulses and successful implementation examples from research and industry, deep dive discussions, industry-driven workshops and a lot of networking.



  • Keynotes from industry and science
  • Industry impulses: Industry partners present best-practice examples from successful digitalization projects in the context of ASE.
  • Design Structure Matrix (DSM) tutorial
  • Industry Sprint Workshop – Solving current industrial challenges with ASE/ DSM
  • Parallel research-paper presentation sessions, giving insight in the current state of ASE and DSM research
  • Exchange and networking: Expand your network at the evening event and the other networking spaces.
  • Lab tours: Cognitive Engineering and Production Lab | Mobile Plug-In Lab | Frugal Innovation Lab | CoLEDWall – Visual Collaborative Engineering