AI can pull the datasheet, cross-reference the part, and draft the follow-up in minutes. What it cannot do is understand where a customer's roadmap is heading two years out, or know which application risk will surface before it shows up in testing. The rep who sees around corners is still the one who wins the business. The question is how you build that edge when the tools keep changing.

In this bonus episode of the Leadership in Manufacturing Podcast, host Sannah Vinding continues her conversation with Hunter Starr, CPMR, President at