Currently, serial manipulators are the boom in the industry. Most companies are looking for solutions that improve production processes and that are human collaborative. They seek to simulate the skills that humans perform. Nowadays there is a constant question of comparison between a redundant robot of 7-DOF and one that meets the necessary joints to perform complex jobs useful in the industry as is the 6-DOF. In this paper we design a mathematical model that describes the forwards kinematics of the 7-DOF manipulator using the famous D-H convention and determine if the kinematic chain of the manipulators interferes in the performance of their work and thus reach a comparison with its predecessor of 6-DOF in the industry by means of a simulation in CoppeliaSim. As the main results the 6-DOF is more useful for repetitive production assignments and the 7-DOF for human collaboration.