Research Article

Single-Machine Scheduling with Fixed Periodic Preventive Maintenance to Minimise the Total Weighted Completion Times

Table 6

Best performance for lower bounds compared to the optimal solutions.

nMinimum RPG (%)
LB1LB3LB4LB5NewLB

50.5880.00028.01624.3070.000
60.6120.00038.78226.0990.000
70.9920.00044.01344.0130.000
80.5390.00049.65336.0250.000
90.6760.00051.38549.4970.000
101.5850.00049.19538.4520.000
111.3740.52753.66350.8150.000
122.2600.88860.48255.1030.000
130.4630.46350.21042.3440.000
141.7180.00061.76055.8800.000
153.0641.00064.29351.6600.180