  Performing an overview of the benchmarking initiatives oriented towards the
performance evaluation of Holonic Manufacturing Systems shows that there are
very few of them. However, a comparison between all the isolated emu-lation
developments for benchmarking in literature was made, and showed that many
common features could be extracted. Several deadlocks for a generic approach of
these developments are also exhibited. A global architecture dedicated to a
generic performance evaluation platform design is suggested. This architecture
integrates a scenario manager, whose main specificities were detailed and
justified. Those features are meant to both integrate the best practices
encountered in literature and fulfil the missing aspects to respond to the
problematics.
