Built by craftsmen. Trusted by scientists

NS CNC was founded in the 1990s by an artist with an engineering background who needed tools that didn't exist. Fine jewelry at the level he required meant carving wax by hand — slow, imprecise, and impossible to scale. The solution was to build a better machine.

The first NS CNC mills were 3 and 4-axis. Significant improvement over hand carving, but still limited. Complex designs — depth, undercuts, compound curves — needed a fifth axis. In 2009, the Mira 1 shipped: the world's first 5-axis desktop CNC mill designed specifically for jewelry wax modeling.

Jewelers adopted it immediately. Then scientists came looking.

Researchers at universities found that the same properties that made the Mira exceptional for jewelry — sub-micron accuracy, stability, compact form factor, ability to machine at scales invisible to the eye — made it equally suited for fabricating NMR microcoils, microfluidic chips, and laboratory sensors. NS CNC machines now operate in research institutions on multiple continents and have contributed to peer-reviewed publications in fields we never anticipated.

The current line: Mira 6S, Mira J9, Elara 2, and Lathe 3. Each engineered for a different class of work. All built to the same standard.

In 2009, the first 5-axis machine was ready to ship and needed a name. Technical descriptors, acronyms, and power words were all considered and rejected. The machine wasn't a statement of power. It was a tool for making something beautiful.

The name arrived from a simple thought: what if it could make something miraculous? Miraculous → Mira.

Mira is also a famous variable star in the constellation Cetus — one that changes in brightness over time, never exactly the same twice. That felt right.

Customers around the world have since given their machines their own names — Miranda, Mirochka, Miroslava, Maria, Meir. We consider that the best possible feedback.

Creating high-quality parts is one thing, getting them to work together is another entirely. Before a mill is sent out to a customer, it goes through rigorous testing and calibrations, inside and out. These are a few of the tools we use to make sure our mills meet and exceed our clients’ expectations of precision and quality.