Traditional control instruments and DCS control systems are limited by shortcomings such as single control function, independent controlled elements, inability to close-loop control on site, and ineffective communication. Aiming at these problems, this paper proposes a kind of industrial furnace edge controller which has the functions of acquisition, calculation, control, storage, output and communication in one. The edge controller structure, edge computing and the control method applied to edge computing are designed. The fuzzy PID control method is compared with the conventional PID control method by taking the temperature control of resistance furnace as an example. The simulation shows that the control effect of fuzzy PID on resistance furnace temperature is obviously better than that of conventional PID. The test results also show that the performance indices for the fuzzy PID control are better, which again proves that the fuzzy PID control outperforms. The research results of this paper are of reference value for engineering applications.