The automation of food packaging machinery is beneficial to improve its productivity, meet the people's increasing living requirements, and ensure the consistency and safety of food packaging. In order to realize the automation of food packaging machinery, some issues are taken into consideration such as controller, sensor, servo drive technology, human-computer interaction interface, network technology and so on. From the developing trend of food packaging machinery automation, researches on the numerical control, information integration, and intelligent fault diagnosis of equipment should be strengthened.