In modern machining and industrial workshops, accuracy and clamping stability play an important role in productivity and safety. Orcan is recognized for offering durable bench and machine vices designed to improve machining precision, workpiece stability, and toolroom efficiency.
Engineers, machinists, toolmakers, and workshop technicians rely on these tools for essential operations such as drilling, grinding, cutting, filing, tapping, and assembly work. The goal is simple — secure the workpiece firmly, minimize vibration, and achieve clean, accurate results.
Orcan manufactures a wide range of clamping solutions including Orcan Bench Vice, pneumatic machine vice, Air-operated vice, and Rear Jaw Sliding Bench Vice. Each tool is designed for a specific application, ensuring that workshops can choose the right vice for their operations. Pneumatic options such as the Pneumatic bench vice help reduce operator fatigue and increase efficiency, especially in fast-paced CNC environments.
For automotive and repair tasks, tools like the Bearing puller vice assist mechanics and technicians in handling bearing extraction and maintenance safely. These products are widely used across Garage Tools, toolrooms, fabrication units, CNC machining shops, and industrial maintenance facilities.
The demand for precision clamping tools has grown as industries invest more into CNC machining, fabrication, mold-making, production tooling, and quality inspection. Choosing reliable vices reduces downtime, prevents inaccuracies, and ensures consistent performance over time.
With decades of experience, Orcan continues to provide engineered clamping solutions trusted by professionals across India. The brand remains committed to delivering durability, accuracy, and long service life in demanding industrial applications.
The evolution of industrial manufacturing and CNC machining over the last few decades has pushed workholding tools into a more critical role than ever before. Whether it is machining, fabrication, repair, or tool-room operations, the ability to hold workpieces securely, consistently, and accurately directly affects output quality. Among the many workholding devices used across industries, one category stands out — the industrial vice.
A vice is considered a foundational workshop tool. From metalworking to grinding, drilling, filing, cutting, tapping, and general bench work, the vice enables technicians and machinists to control the workpiece instead of struggling to control both the tool and the material at the same time. However, what began historically as a simple clamping device has evolved into a technically engineered tool designed for industrial precision. This includes specialized formats such as machine vices, bench vices, pneumatic units, and even hybrid solutions engineered for automation.
Today, manufacturing professionals and workshop engineers look for vice solutions that match the demands of CNC machining, heavy fabrication, repair maintenance, inspection, and metal finishing. Accuracy, rigidity, vibration control, and durability are all expected as baseline properties. The shift toward more precise and modular tooling reflects the realities of modern production environments.
The Workshop as the Foundation of Precision
Many people mistake CNC machining and computer-controlled manufacturing as fully automated and digital, but the reality is that workshop-level workholding is still the backbone of industrial operations. Before any machining or production process can begin, raw materials must be cut, filed, deburred, aligned, and held firmly. This is why bench vices remain essential, even in high-precision facilities.
The Orcan Bench Vice is an example of a traditional yet robust bench work tool used in tool rooms, garages, metal fabrication shops, welding units, and CNC preparation environments. Bench vices provide machinists the leverage and control needed when shaping or finishing metal manually. In many industrial repair shops, these vices are categorized under Garage Tools, as they remain widely used in automotive repair, component refurbishment, mechanical maintenance, and custom fabrication tasks.
What makes a bench vice truly industrial-grade is its resistance to deflection under load. A standard bench vice needs to handle lateral forces, heat from abrasive cutting, vibrations from filing and grinding, and repetitive clamping cycles without warping or loosening. This durability requirement is why industrial bench vices are typically manufactured from high-strength steel, ductile iron, or precision-cast alloys reinforced for stability.
Machine Vices Supporting Modern CNC Precision
As industrial work transitioned from manual machining to CNC-driven accuracy, workholding needs changed dramatically. Machine vices entered the scene as a more rigid and high-precision version of clamping systems. These tools are used on milling machines, CNC machining centers, grinding machines, drilling machines, and surface finishing systems.
A pneumatic machine vice or its manually operated counterpart is expected to maintain strict parallelism and squareness while holding the workpiece. If the vice cannot maintain accurate alignment, machining accuracy suffers, and dimensional tolerances fail. Machine vices are engineered with hardened and ground surfaces to ensure stability during cutting operations.
In more automated environments, pneumatic solutions such as the Air-operated vice and Pneumatic bench vice offer a major advantage by eliminating repetitive tightening and loosening. Instead, the clamping force is applied pneumatically, allowing consistent grip strength and faster production cycles. These types of vices reduce operator fatigue, improve productivity, and ensure uniform clamping pressure — benefits that are especially relevant in high-volume CNC environments.
