A survey of maintenance characteristics was needed to analyze the maintenance management implementation and was deployed to 4 organizations in the manufacturing sector. The survey used a 5-point Likert scale which consisted of 29 questions. The result from the survey obtained key maintenance characteristics for each criterion, namely breakdown time, the availability of daily, weekly and monthly schedules, the critical level of equipment, the availability of budget for essential machines or equipment, the administration record of budget utilization, and determination of maintenance management KPI (Key Performance Indicator) which is based on company’s KPI. Another result of the survey is that TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) takes OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness), breakdown time, MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures), and MTTR (Mean Time To Repair) as its performance measurement while PM (Preventive Maintenance) only measures OEE and breakdown time. This research arguably has theoretical and practical contributions. Theoretically, this research was one of the few attempts to determine maintenance management characteristics by comparing Preventive Maintenance (PM) and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM). Practically, this study could guide the organizations to implement maintenance activity by considering the maintenance characteristics explained in this research.A survey of maintenance characteristics was needed to analyze the maintenance management implementation and was deployed to 4 organizations in the manufacturing sector. The survey used a 5-point Likert scale which consisted of 29 questions. The result from the survey obtained key maintenance characteristics for each criterion, namely breakdown time, the availability of daily, weekly and monthly schedules, the critical level of equipment, the availability of budget for essential machines or equipment, the administration record of budget utilization, and determination of maintenance management KPI (Key Performance Indicator) which is based on company’s KPI. Another result of the survey is that TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) takes OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness), breakdown time, MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures), and MTTR (Mean Time To Repair) as its performance measurement while PM (Preventive Maintenance) only measures OEE and breakdown time. This research arguably has theoretical and practical contributions. Theoretically, this research was one of the few attempts to determine maintenance management characteristics by comparing Preventive Maintenance (PM) and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM). Practically, this study could guide the organizations to implement maintenance activity by considering the maintenance characteristics explained in this research.