Patent ID: 8042266

Claim:
A mounting apparatus configured to mount electronic components on a board, comprising: a plurality of component feeders each having a separate carrier tape on which the electronic components are disposed in a row; a mounting information supplier configured to supply mounting information including a component feeder identifier of each of the plurality of component feeders and a component identifier of each of the electronic components; and a mounting device configured to mount the electronic components on the board based on the mounting information provided from the mounting information supplier, wherein the electronic components disposed in a row on a single carrier tape of at least one of the plurality of component feeders have different characteristics; wherein the component feeder identifier of the at least one of the plurality of component feeders corresponds to the component identifiers of the electronic components having the different characteristics disposed on the corresponding component feeder; wherein the electronic component to be mounted and the component feeder on which the electronic component to be mounted is disposed are identified by the component identifier and the component feeder identifier each time one of the electronic components is to be mounted.