In a mounting system where a chip component is mounted by a small component mounting apparatus on paste solder applied onto a board and the mounting state is inspected by a mounting inspection apparatus, and when the mounting inspection apparatus confirms that a chip component is not present, it is firstly confirmed whether or not a mounting trace of a chip component is present on solder, and a mounting nozzle is specified which has mounted a chip component found to be a missing component according to the confirmation result. Thereafter, the confirmation result is transmitted to a controller of the small component mounting apparatus. The controller selects and obtains coping information from a data base based on the confirmation result, and the information is shown on a display.