As mentioned above, design review meetings happen at various points during a project, usually towards the end. In my experience in production engineering, however, design review meetings are conducted once a week and attended to by every engineer and upper level managers. These meetings are to establish the current status of smaller projects and to approve or disprove of production changes. It is essential to the functionality of the production line because it allows everyone to be in communication about a certain change or update. This ensures that the design changes are approved by everyone involved, and it facilitates a smoother transition. Design review meetings ensure that changes are not implemented without everyone’s knowledge and reduces the chance of resistance to change.