For producing Japanese liquor ginjoshu (high-quality sake brewed at low temperatures from rice grains milled to 60 % weight or less) which requires rice polishing at such high accuracy as shin seimai buai (true rice-polishing ratio), computer-controlled rice-milling machines are sometimes used nowadays.
真精米歩合など高い精度の精米が必要とされる日本酒吟醸酒の誕生の醸造などのためには、今日ではコンピュータ制御の精米機が使われることもある。