Temperature control requires a lot of control regulator. It has wide applications in cement, metallurgy and other industrial fields. The key equipment in metallurgy , cement, refractory materials production is Rotary kiln, of which temperature is one of the important parameters of process control .The kiln of calcination temperature in rotary kiln is an important factor affecting the quality and output of the kiln, and even cause the collapse of the kiln, affecting the normal operation of production. Based on the analysis for several important factors affecting the kiln temperature, the paper presents the application of fuzzy control in temperature control of rotary kiln. A fuzzy controller was established using the matlab fuzzy toolbox. A simulink rotary kiln fuzzy control system simulation was carried out on the kiln temperature control simulation. The simulation results show that the system response speed is faster and has better robustness compared with the traditional PID control system.