Agree Bluejets. But for the fun of "developing tools and processes", many people work out new tools and techniques... This is a new one for me, but I have seen it in factories on Mass production, and it was very accurately repeatable. - on the right job, where a localised zone was hardened. Unlike bench gas blowlamps.
This is something you can buy, and with a stopwatch on the power supply can harden (E.G.) Valve heads without hardening stems, or ends of rockers without hardening the middle, without the mess and post heating cleaning from using Kasenite, or some such toxic chemical. I saw it used to harden the part of a shaft that formed the inner race of a bearing, without losing the ductility of the core of the shaft. like on a crankshaft.
The real difficulty lies in how the part is cooled after heating. I.E. the process I saw had an air jet turned ON to cool the part after the heating coil was turned off. That rapidly cooled the outside, but allowed the core to cool slower. Oil or water-spray quenching had been used previously with results that were too variable (and the oil burned-off so the flames and smoke were a problem for the factory). The "home workshop" would probably opt for heating by gas flame then oil quenching - in an open space!
The problem (and makes your argument a winner!) is that we usually do not have enough components to warrant the cost of such a "technical" tool or process, nor the understanding or instructions to get it right on the "one part for this model".
Enough said?
K2