Expanding application of activation analysis in industry resulted in exposure of features related to higher requirements to productivity, reliability, automation level, metrological support of analytical methods and equipment. Based on the application of neutron generators, radioisotope neutron sources, nuclear reactors, electron accelerators as activating radiation sources, high-productivity activation analytical systems used directly in analytical laboratories and plants were constructed. Level of development of the above works makes it possible to conclude that industrial activation analysis has formed as an independent trend of nuclear analytics and has considerable prospects.