This paper discusses a novel principle of advanced process control strategy: the extremely fast and local pulsing of temperature. This strategy leads to some interesting potential applications, but there are no devices implementing it available yet. One such device currently under construction by the authors is introduced in this paper. It operates by converting electrical energy into heat by forcing a very high current through a very thin resistive element, which also acts as the catalyst for heterogeneous reactions. A design procedure for the key parameters is developed and a simulation of heat distribution in the design under construction is presented. The simulation shows that it should be possible to get local temperature peaks of 500 K which exist for only about 20 us.