SPIF

SPIF may refer to:
* Spiff, Special Performance Incentive Fund or Sales Performance Incentive Fund - a special fund (money pool) allocated to provide sales personnel with specific (typically financial) incentives, geared at supporting tactical or strategic goals.

*SPIF, Single Point Incremental Forming - a manufacturing technique where a sheet metal part is formed using a single point tool in form of a rod with a spherical end. SPIF could also be called die-less forming since no dies are used. SPIF is known to allow higher formability compared with traditional sheet forming processes. The reason or reasons for this is still a topic being debated in the metal forming community. Different research groups have come up with very different explanation: 1) Forming is limited by fracture instead of necking [Single-point incremental forming & formability-failure diagrams, p. 109-131M.B. Silva, M. Skjoedt, A.G. Atkins, N. Bay, P.A.F. MartinsThe Journal of Strain Analysis, (2008), vol. 43, p. 15-35] , 2) through thickness shear [Allwood, J. M., Shouler, D. R., and Tekkaya, A. E., The increased forming limits of incremental sheet forming processes, Key Engineering Materials, (2007), 621-628.] , 3) serrated strain paths [Eyckens, P., He, S., Van Bael, A., Van Houtte, P., and Duflou, J., Forming limit predictions for the serrated strain paths in single point incremental sheet forming, AIP Conference Proceedings - American Institute of Physics, (2007), 141-146] , 4) Cyclic bending and unbending [Emmens, W. C. and van den Boogaard, A. H., Tensile tests with bending: a mechanism for incremental forming., ESAFORM, Lyon France, (2008)] .

* SPIF, Security Policy Information File - a signed file that conveys the semantics of an access control policy (e.g., the following classifications exist, they are represented with these bits and integers, the following security categories exist, they are represented with these other bits and integers, these categories are "permissive," these other ones are "restrictive," and you can't assert this category unless you also assert those other ones, and so on.) [http://www.imc.org/ietf-pkix/old-archive-98/msg01166.html]

*SPIF, Shoreline Parks Improvement Fund - a parks-improvemnt funding arrangement in Seattle city government. [http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/financedepartment/0712adoptedcip/dpr_overview.pdf Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation Overview] , see bottom of p. 24.

*Scottish Policy Innovation Forum (SPIF) - a Scottish think tank that aims to foster better dialogue between academic research and public policy development.

* SPIF, Sellers Property Information Form - in the UK, a document which contains clear questions the seller of a property must answer for the buyer as part of the conveyancing process when selling a property, and is usually dealt with by both parties solicitor. Questions range from those relating to boundaries; disputes; notices; guarantees; services; neighbours; arrangements and rights; non-owner occupiers; restrictions; planning; but can include further even more specific information the buyer may wish to know.

See also

* Spiff (disambiguation)