Food and Beverage Automation: Packaging, Quality Control, and Next-Generation Manufacturing Careers

Food manufacturing has 750,000 unfilled jobs with 2.1M projected by 2030. 78% of manufacturers are automating to fill labor gaps. The packaging automation market reaches $158.6B by 2034. PLC programmers earn $65K-$99K, controls engineers $92K-$135K, machine vision engineers $95K-$145K.