Purpose: Production and transportation of precast components, as two continuous service stages of a precast plant, play an important role in meeting customer needs and controlling costs. However, there is still a lack of production and transportation scheduling methods that comprehensively consider delivery timeliness and transportation economy. This article aims to study the integrated scheduling optimization problem of in-plant flowshop production and off-plant transportation under the consideration of practical constraints of customer order delivery time window, and seek an optimal scheduling method that balances delivery timeliness and transportation economy.Design/methodology/approach: In this study, an integrated scheduling optimization model of flowshop production and transportation for precast components with delivery time windows is established, which describes the relationship between production and transportation and handles transportation constraints under the premise of balancing delivery timeliness and transportation economy. Then a genetic algorithm is designed to solve this model. It realizes the integrated scheduling of production and transportation through double-layer chromosome coding. A program is designed to realize the solution process. Finally, the validity of the model is proved by the calculation of actual enterprise data.Findings: The optimized scheduling scheme can not only meet the on-time delivery, but also improve the truck loading rate and reduce the total cost, composed of early cost in plant, delivery penalty cost and transportation cost. In the model validation, the optimal scheduling scheme uses one less truck than the traditional EDD scheme (saving 20% of the transportation cost), and the total cost can be saved by 17.22%.Originality/value: This study clarifies the relationship between the production and transportation of precast components and establishes the integrated scheduling optimization model and its solution algorithm. Different from previous studies, the proposed optimization model can balance the timeliness and economy of production and transportation for precast components.

With the increasing popularity of prefabricated buildings, more and more precast plants have been equipped with multiple production lines to increase productivity and meet the growing market demand. Sharing equipment, human, and transportation resources is a typical feature of integrated scheduling management for precast production and transportation on multiple production lines. In response to these characteristics, this article studies the integrated scheduling optimization of multi-line production and transportation for prefabricated components. With on-time delivery and lower costs as the goals, a scheduling optimization mathematical model is established for this scenario. This article adopts the genetic algorithm to design the solution algorithm for this model, and the effectiveness of the model and algorithm is verified through an example. The results show that compared with the traditional scheduling scheme, this method can prominently reduce costs while promoting on-time delivery. The model and method can help the precast plant with multiple production lines improve efficiency and reduce costs, as well as enhancing the practicability of the precast production and transportation scheduling scheme.