Induction hardening is an energy-efficient method accompanied by crack inducing residual stresses due to process-related thermal gradients between edge and core areas. In order to reduce the residual stresses furnace tempering up to two hours is conventionally applied causing additional transportation and energy costs in the process chain. The induction tempering with a duration of several seconds represents a resource-efficient and environmentally friendly alternative, which is integrable in the continuous production line. Hereby, the existing induction hardening process chain could become more flexible and ecological while maintaining product and process quality. The restraint of potential users regarding this method could be explained by the significant effort associated with the empirical determination of the induction tempering parameters. By means of a virtual process design, the experimental effort could be distinctly lowered, increasing the attractiveness of this innovative technology. Existing models of the induction tempering are focused on the electromagnetic-thermal processes and on the final material hardness ignoring the prior hardening process. Thus, the complex coupled thermal-microstructural aspects are neglected and consequently, the model significance is strongly limited. Considering the existing research deficit, the purpose of this project is the development of an integrated numerical induction tempering model in the process chain of induction hardening allowing the efficient determination of the optimal tempering parameters with a moderate effort and a deepening of the process understanding. The model will be implemented exemplary in the commercial simulation software ANSYS and validated experimentally.