Fierce competition between organizations in this industry 4.0 era has sparked the needs for organizations to gain and maintain their competitive advantage. Incapability of implementing business strategies could result in losing competitive advantage. Maintenance activity has proven to be one of the activities that organizations could benefit from. Maintenance activity is divided into two types in general. Corrective Maintenance (CM) and Preventive Maintenance (PM). To improve the reliability and quality of the system and their component PM is an essential strategy for an organization to be implemented. In this research, a quantitative method was implemented through questionnaires that were distributed in one of the biggest steel manufacturing companies in Indonesia to analyze an organization's condition in conducting maintenance management systems according to Preventive Maintenance Characteristics in the manufacturing industry. Results showed that each PM Characteristic is important in implementing and improving PM Activities.