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The purpose of this work is to design an automated production, palletizing and storage line in a virtual factory, where after the desired item is produced in the corresponding machine, it is led to the palletizer and then the pallets are transferred to a storage area. In the palletizer a 3x2 or 2x3 arrangement of pieces are placed on the pallet creating a stack of variable height and determined by an HMI screen. At the end of the line, the pallets with the loads are stored in turn in a specially designed structure. For this purpose, the virtual factory was initially creating using the FACTORY I/O program. Then the electrical design of the entire line was done with EPLAN, while the controller (PLC) programming was done using the Siemens Tia Portal platform.