Intelligent manufacturing control is a broad research domain at the center of the development of new industrial systems. Due to the focus on flexibility and reactivity of organizations, the control architectures must evolve accordingly. Therefore, several research trends have emerged, based on various paradigms: industrial agents, operational research, holonic manufacturing systems, among others. Due to their industrial roots, these research efforts are usually evaluated with regard to data and case studies directly extracted from specific industrial contexts. Over the years, this situation has perpetuated, and no actual benchmark exists that enables research teams to evaluate the performance of their proposals on real industrial case studies. This work intends to contribute to the creation of such a benchmark and, to do so, proposes organizing the first world contest on Intelligent Manufacturing Control. Each year, one previously studied case study will be expanded to create different instances to be tested by the contestants. These cases will be added to the global benchmark over the years, together with the best solutions provided by the contestants, in order to build the benchmark used to evaluate future research works.