Clamping with form-fit offers a number of major advantages over clamping methods using force or frictional clamping. Due to the external pre-stamping of the blanks outside the vice, no high forces have to be generated in the clamping device itself. All force-intensive processes are transferred from the clamping device to the stamping station, thus eliminating the need for force intensifiers or comparable in the clamping device. This allows the SOLIDGrip vices to be designed compactly and with nearly no collision contours. The purely mechanical actuation is as simple as it is sufficient, due to the form-fit connection only minimal clamping forces are required with the highest holding forces at the same time.