# 100 hours of AI training where every department left with something that works

> A dehumidification systems manufacturer brings AI into every functional area: not theory, but a real project built by each department, integrated into the tools it already uses.

- URL: https://albertoscarpa.com/en/work/ai-training-100-hours-every-department/
- Lingua / Language: English
- Published: 2026-03-01
- Tags: AI
- Sector: Manufacturer of dehumidification and air treatment systems (HVAC)
- Service: AI training — general + per functional area
- Duration: 100 hours, extended multi-department programme
- Outcome: Every functional area leaves with a working automation

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## The context

Most AI courses leave the room with enthusiasm and no application: people go back to their desks and nothing changes. A dehumidification systems manufacturer wanted the opposite — to bring AI into every functional area, from engineering to sales, and have it stay usable the day after. The challenge: departments with different levels of digital maturity and distinct, concrete needs, all on the same programme without reducing everything to a generic overview.

## The approach

A hundred hours in two stages. First, a common baseline for everyone — what generative AI does and doesn't do, where it's worth it, where it's a risk — so every department started from the same vocabulary. Then modules per functional area, each with a real project built during the course on that department's own processes, in the Learn·Practice·Build format. Part of the work went into concrete automation: integration with the Office tools already in use and Power Automate flows, so the solutions lived inside the company's environment rather than in an isolated tool destined to be abandoned.

## The outcome

Every functional area left the programme with a working automation or project, hooked into the tools it uses every day. The difference from a traditional course is this: people weren't trained *about* AI, they were put to work *with* AI on their own case. It's the Learn·Practice·Build method applied at the scale of an entire company.