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At present many areas of industry have strong tendencies towards miniaturization of products. Mechanical components of these products as a rule are manufactured using conventional largescale equipment or micromechanical equipment based on microelectronic technology (MEMS). The first method has some drawbacks because the conventional large-scale equipment is energy-, space-and material-consuming. The second method seems to be more advanced but has some limitations, for example, 2-or 2.5 dimensional shapes of components and materials compatible with silicon technology. In this article alternative technology of micromechanical device production is considered. This technology is based on micromachine tools and microassembly devices. The micromachine tools and microassembly devices could be produced as sequential generations of microequipment. This paper describes the efforts and some results of first generation microequipment prototyping. A micromachining center having overall sizes 130 x 160 x 85 mm was produced and characterized. This center permits us to manufacture micromechanical details having the sizes from 50 pm to 5 mm. These details have complex 3D-shape (for example, screw, gear, graduated shaft, conic details, etc.), and are made from different materials, for example, brass, steel, different plastics etc. We started to investigate and make prototypes of the assembly microdevices controlled by a computer vision system. En example of proposed technology applications (microfilters) is also described in this paper.

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This research aims to identify the intangible urban geometries of the physical-environmental, social-cultural, and political-economic components of Avenue 1 East, Caobos, San José de Cúcuta, Colombia. This in order to represent and quantify the connectivity trajectory of the intangible networks that are generated from the analysis of the meso and micro scale of the city. The applied methodology is based on the theory of the urban network, the study used a mixed approach, under a strategy called multi-methods or methodological triangulation. Within this research, physical concepts such as trajectory, displacement and space-time were assumed. This type of research allowed the study topics to be approached through layers through which the implicit dynamics in the sector under study were identified. As relevant results it is obtained that the use of a mathematical and physical logic strengthens the studies focused on city planning, the importance of hierarchically and quantitatively organizing the connection networks (meso and micro) in order to solve problems or phenomena typical of the daily life of the sector under study, guaranteeing a dynamic and real process for its growth.