Keeping equipment clean and tidy is not always the easiest thing to do when maintenance and operations has full duty schedule. Even though, making time for clean-up is important. The accumulation of dirt and grease on machinery is unavoidable and to be expected. But excessive accumulations are a poor maintenance practice and procedures should be adopted to allow time for clean-up and dirt removal.
The image here shows a typical example of excessive dirt and debris build-up. It would be fair to guess that this equipment won’t last through its life expectancy. This kind of build-up will almost certainly result in heat related failures of the bearings and other internal components.